He’d been deviating from the official text of the baptism rite for 20 years, using the first-person plural to emphasize, he thought, the welcoming community of the Catholic Church. He baptized ...

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Two weeks later, a note was put next to his name in the parish baptism register, formalizing his abandonment of the Catholic Church, and Nanetti became one of an increasing, though hard to ...

They find theology classes irrelevant to their daily lives. Students in Catholic schools often say ... But here is an invitation to learn about baptism of desire, the nuanced insights of Julian ...

The early Church Fathers consistently affirmed the Catholic (and scriptural ... Kelly sums up his theology of baptism as follows: “It is the unique means of obtaining remission of sins, it ...

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The Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Friday consecrated a new Catholic church at Bethany ... and consecrated the Church of the Baptism of the Lord at Al-Maghtas, known in ...

The Vatican’s secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, on Friday consecrated a new church at a place on the banks of the Jordan River that the Catholic ... Church of the Baptism of the ...