The Catholic Church will allow transgender adults to be baptized under the same terms as any other person eligible to receive the sacrament, according to a major new religious doctrine issued by ...

The Catholic Church teaches that all humans are born with original sin, a legacy of Adam and Eve's disobedience. Baptism, administered with water and the words "I baptize you in the name of the ...

The early Church Fathers consistently affirmed the Catholic (and scriptural) belief about baptism, viewing it as a sacrament for the remission of sins and the regeneration of the soul. Rather than ...

Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin, center, celebrates Mass for the dedication and inauguration of the Church of the Baptism of the Lord at Al-Maghtas, Jordan, also known as ...

A new ruling by the Vatican ’s doctrine department has opened the door to Catholic baptism for transgender people and babies of same-sex couples. The new rules, dated October 31, come from a set ...

Robert Mickens has been reporting and commenting on the Vatican and the Catholic Church the past four decades through his celebrated weekly Letter from Rome. Mickens arrived in Rome in 1986 to study ...