Family trio baptised into Catholic Church in Huntington

More than three months after the Easter Vigil, three catechumens from St Michael’s, Huntingdon, were finally baptised and welcomed into the Catholic Church. James, Lisa and Austin completed their preparation for the sacraments in time for Easter; James and Lisa had followed an RCIA programme band Austin had followed both a baptism preparation programme and... Read More

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August 11, 2020

Pope baptises twins after successful surgery to separate them

Their heads encased in white bandages covering the wounds where they had been conjoined, two-year-old twins named Ervina and Prefina were baptised by Pope Francis on 6th August in the chapel of his residence. The babies from the Central Africa Republic are still hospitalised at the Vatican-owned Bambino Gesu paediatric hospital in Rome, a spokesman said... Read More

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August 7, 2020

Vatican says baptisms that used a modified formula are not valid

Changing the words of the formula for baptism render the sacrament invalid, said the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Specifically, a baptism administered with the formula ‘We baptise you…’ instead of ‘I baptise you in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit’ is not valid because... Read More

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January 13, 2019

Warning over climate change threat to biblical landmarks

The Bishop for the Environment has urged society to “act now to fix the damage we are doing to the planet,” amid warnings that biblical wonders, such as the Dead Sea, are drying up. In fact, the Dead Sea is shrinking at such an alarming rate, it could become ‘just a tiny pool by the... Read More

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February 22, 2018

Nearly 50,000 baptisms registered in China in 2017, says Vatican agency

The Catholic Church in China registered 48,556 baptisms in 2017, reflecting the vitality and missionary strength of the Catholic communities there, according to a report by Fides, the news agency of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples. The figures likely are incomplete, however, given the difficulty of procuring data from Catholic communities in the... Read More

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