Fundamentalists often criticize the Catholic Church’s practice of baptizing infants. According to them, baptism is for adults and older children, because it is to be administered only after one has ...

Yesterday we discussed the claim by Mary McAleese–a “prominent Catholic,” a canon lawyer, and the former president of Ireland–that infant baptism is an abuse of children because it denies them their ...

The Catholic Church's constant teaching is that children should be baptized soon after birth. The reason being that a child is born with original sin, which, in God's ordinary providence, cannot be ...

Baptism is a ceremony that symbolises a commitment to living a life as a Christian. Jesus was baptised in the New Testament ...

Dear Amy: I grew up in a conservative Catholic family and went to 12 years of Catholic school. After, I decided to leave the Catholic faith. My husband was raised without a religious background. Ten ...

I recently wrote of one of my newborn son’s namesakes, Bl. Columba Marmion. My son, Colum, was baptized five days after birth (it would have been three except for the priest’s sickness), which is fast ...

A woman described as a “prominent Catholic” is claiming that infant baptism is child abuse! Now many Protestants–unlike us Lutherans–oppose baptizing babies for various reasons, but those are not the ...