Enza Giorgi became the 11th child to wear a baptismal gown that has been in her Rochester family for 80 years.

A pastor of a Catholic church in Phoenix, Arizona has resigned after learning he had incorrectly performed thousands of infant baptisms over more than two decades. Rev. Andres Arango, who conducted ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A priest in Arizona performed thousands of baptisms incorrectly by erroneously changing one word ...

Membership in Michigan's Catholic parishes has dropped by 17% since 2000, according to data collected by Georgetown University. But the declines in Catholic sacraments and education has been much more ...

To the editor: I am guessing that non-Catholics reading about the priest who made a crucial error in thousands of baptisms are wondering if this is just a tempest at ...

After hundreds of Catholic baptisms performed in Michigan between 1986 and 1999 were deemed invalid because of the language used during the ritual, the Archdiocese of Detroit is still trying to remedy ...

Catholic Church leaders ban baptismal godparents in one Italian diocese amid concern the role is more unsavory than sacred — and can be exploited by the Mafia. Religious leaders in Catania issued a ...

Pope Francis has faced growing criticism in recent months for his openness to limited church reforms aimed at welcoming the LGBTQ community and other minorities around the world into the Catholic ...

VATICAN CITY, Nov 8 (Reuters) - Transsexuals can be godparents at Roman Catholic baptisms, witnesses at religious weddings and receive baptism themselves, the Vatican's doctrinal office said on ...