On Feb. 22, Washington Cardinal Robert W. McElroy celebrated the Rite of Election and Call to Continuing Conversion, the Lenten liturgy marking the final stage of preparation for those who will ...

More than 1,000 children, teenagers and adults filled the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Northeast yesterday to prepare to enter the Catholic Church this Easter. A ...

To emphasize that the sacrament of baptism formally brings a person into the church of God and not just into a local Christian community, the Vatican has ordered a slight change of wording in the ...

MINERSVILLE – Members of Eastern Rite Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches celebrated a major holy day Thursday as they observed the Feast of the Theophany of Our Lord. In St. Nicholas Ukrainian ...

"I don’t think my feet touched the floor at the Easter vigil of 1994," recalls Jennifer Pixler of Maryland. "I felt such love, knowing that God was wiping out all my sins when I was baptized." ...

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When the young woman learned that her baptism into the Roman Catholic Church would be a thorough dousing, her reaction was short and blunt "Aaagh!" "You will get very wet," Monsignor Gerald Wilkerson ...

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 ...