An adult baptism in the Catholic Church. (Credit: Stock image.) Listen David Mills writes that before his reception into the Church, along with his wife, as Anglo-Catholics, “We believed ...

Catholic primary schools will be legally banned from using a baptism certificate to choose pupils for entry under historic changes agreed by the Cabinet yesterday. The momentous move, which will ...

In a letter to bishops dated Dec. 13, 2018, and published at the end of 2019, Bishop Metz-Noblat said the "ever-more-complex situation of families in France" had made compiling Catholic documents ...

Baptism, First Communion, and Confirmation: Both parties must be baptized in the Catholic Church and have received the sacraments of First Communion and Confirmation. In some cases, if one of the ...

It is an issue that will come up repeatedly in the coming years. The powers-that-be will have to decide what role religion plays in state-funded schools.

Church school pupils will need baptism certificate to board school bus. Children attending faith schools will have to “prove” their religion to qualify for free school buses, under a radical ...

When asked whether the Catholic Church would take legal action if the baptism barrier was removed, Archbishop Martin, speaking on a national Irish radio show on May 10, said that the bishops had ...

Chief minister Digambar Kamat on Thursday asked law secretary V P Shetye to look into the legal aspects of allowing baptism certificates issued by the church to be valid for succession deeds ...