The baptism ceremony also allows parents and godparents to make a promise before God to bring the baby up within the faith of Christianity. Christian denominations that also practise infant ...

A baby sleeps at the feast of the Baptism of the Lord at the Sistine Chapel, Sunday, Jan. 12, 2025. Credit: Vatican Media In his Jan. 12 Angelus address, the Holy Father said Christians should ...

And baptism is a public declaration. It is a declaration to people around and to God that this is a new life for me. Old life's gone new life's arrived. NATHAN: I was baptised as a baby but some ...

Peter’s Square. Pope Francis baptizes a baby at the feast of the Baptism of the Lord in the Sistine Chapel, Sunday, Jan. 12, 2025. (photo: Vatican Media) Kristina Millare/CNA Vatican January 12 ...

The pontiff personally administered the sacrament of baptism on the infants, who are the children of Vatican employees working at the Holy See. The celebration marks the feast day that recalls ...

In our own baptism, we become the children of God. On the day of your baptism the Heavenly Father acknowledges you as his own dear child. Scripture says, “You are all sons of God through faith ...