49 The Baptism of infants 1250 Born with a fallen human nature and tainted by original sin, children also have need of the new birth in Baptism to be freed from the power of darkness and brought ...

Baptism is so necessary that God affords every opportunity for its reception. Q. 636. Why do the consequences of original sin, such as suffering, temptation, sickness, and death, remain after the ...

Q: Some Evangelical friends were recently quizzing me on the Catholic understanding of baptism. They were especially asking ...

Today, we celebrate the Baptism of Jesus. Although sinless, Jesus willingly presented Himself to be baptized to affirm His identity as the Messiah, whose perfect atonement cleanses our sinfulness and ...

Again, the dove that hovers over him at his baptism is a reminder, first, of the story of Noah, when the appearance of a dove announced deliverance from the cataclysmic flood that had caused such ...

Solemnity of the Baptism of the Lord year C ✠ A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke 3:15-16,21-22 A feeling of expectancy had grown among the people, who were beginning to think that John ...

Healing political division requires we revive the lost virtue of civility, grounded in universal human dignity.

Happy Sunday. As our Dispatch Faith essay by writer Jake Meador points out today, Donald Trump’s connections to the late ...

Editor’s Note: In his column “Communion and Mission,” Father John Paul Erickson will explore the meaning, structure and ...

He humbled himself and received the water baptism from his cousin John ... Jesus’s role as Saviour is God’s answer to original sin and the separation caused by it. While we were once in union and ...