An out-of-town friend refers to Springfield as "The City of Banks and Churches," an appellation some will find pejorative and others complimentary. I know next-to-nothing about banks, except that I ...

No matter how many baptisms you’ve attended, I suspect you’ve only heard a handful of readings from Scripture. The Rite of Baptism provides more than 20 readings, from the Old Testament, the Psalms, ...

That is probably what the Rev. Andres Arango of Phoenix is saying right now — as well as the hundreds of people whom he welcomed into the Roman Catholic Church through the rite of baptism. For years, ...

When is a baptism not a baptism? When the cleric presiding at the ceremony alters the ritual language in such a fundamental way that it undercuts its meaning, according to the Vatican. Stream NBC 5 ...

1213 Holy Baptism is the basis of the whole Christian life, the gateway to life in the Spirit (vitae spiritualis ianua) , 4 and the door which gives access to the other sacraments. Through Baptism we ...

PHOENIX – A Catholic priest resigned from his Phoenix parish recently and most of the baptisms he’d performed were invalidated because he’d been speaking an incorrect word while performing the rite.

SALT LAKE CITY — A group of Holocaust survivors says 14 years of negotiations with the Mormon church over posthumous baptism of Jews killed in Nazi concentration camps have fallen apart. Some of the ...