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Early converts were often adults who publicly professed faith before being immersed in water. Yet by the third century, Christian writers were already debating the baptism of infants. Tertullian ...

Just as we wouldn’t leave newborns without clothes or food, we cannot leave them without faith and baptism, Pope Leo XIV told parents of children he baptized in the splendor and beauty of the Sistine ...

VATICAN CITY (OSV News) — Just as we wouldn’t leave newborns without clothes or food, we cannot leave them without faith and baptism, Pope Leo XIV told parents of children he baptized in the splendor ...

Baptizing one’s children is as essential as providing them with food and clothing, Pope Leo XIV told parents. “Just as they received life from you, their parents, now they receive the meaning to live ...

Pope Leo XIV baptizes one of 20 children in the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican Jan. 11, 2026, the feast of the Baptism of the Lord. Baptizing one's children is as essential as providing them with food ...

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People gather around a makeshift memorial honoring Renee Nicole Good on Jan. 8 in Minneapolis, near the site where she was fatally shot. Credit: AP Photo/Tom Baker “The nuns were not just nuns. The ...