To mark Easter weekend, Le Monde traces the history of this symbol-laden ritual.

15 1220 If water springing up from the earth symbolizes life, the water of the sea is a symbol of death and so can represent the mystery of the cross. By this symbolism Baptism signifies communion ...

"We are an Easter People and Alleluia is our song!" St. John Paul II famously proclaimed, and we are so because of that ...

The pope died on Easter Monday morning at the age of 88 after suffering from a stroke and heart failure, according to the ...

A historic stained-glass window from the former St. John the Baptist Church now resides at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in ...

Even some consider the Catholic Church a cult for teaching on the necessity of baptism for salvation. On a similar issue, some object to infant baptism, claiming it to be invalid since an infant ...

Pew was on the board of the magazine Christianity Today, which he helped finance, though critics said the magazine was merely a “tool of the oil interests.” He saw faith and oil as intertwined, and he ...

Funerals are sacred events filled with symbol and reflection. Reflection on the life that was. For those who knew Christ in this life, they have the added feature of wonderings about what is to come ...

ALPHARETTA, Ga. (BP) — North Shelby Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., celebrated six baptisms last year on Baptism Sunday, the annual Southern Baptist emphasis that urges churches to “fill the tank” ...

Ackerman grew up in rural Reynolds, North Dakota, as “a little farm boy milking cows and feeding the chickens,” and helping ...