10 1219 The Church has seen in Noah's ark a prefiguring of salvation by Baptism, for by it "a few, that is, eight persons, were saved through water": 14 The waters of the great flood you made a ...

So I would just say let's immerse believers through the act of baptism, and if you have a special set of circumstances, God will give your church wisdom what to do. "I indeed baptize you with water ...

Q. 646. In how many ways was the baptism of water given in the first ages of the Church? A. In the first ages of the Church, baptism of water was given in three ways, namely, by immersion or ...

Pope Francis recently issued a letter “On the renewal of the study of the history of the Church.” No matter: Francis himself seems to have forgotten the history of women ordained as deacons.

And while most of the women are going to spend the next 10 years to life in prison, the joy of finding Christ is giving them true freedom.

Two creeds in particular were developed in the early centuries of the Church, which have remained important to the Church and are regularly used in our worship today. People who were preparing for ...

The Mormon church has published a rare interview with one of its "Twelve Apostles" justifying the decision to exclude the children of same-sex marriages from baptism. "This is about family, this is ...

John’s baptism called people to repent, turning away from sin and to God in preparation for the coming Messiah. As important as water baptism is, and continued to be in the New Testament church, it is ...

As a young sister teaching school, Joan Chittister one evening came across the small book, Women and the Church, by Sr. A.M. McGrath, a Dominican sister and a Ph.D. historian and chair at the time ...

The organizers of the International Women's Day Dip are sharing stories from Maine and around at Water Women Mini Film Fest on Sunday at Space in Portland. In “Vacationland,” his 2017 book ...

Each story is accompanied by a painting by Ally Barrett, who also illustrated Paula Gooder’s Women of Holy Week. For a limited time, digital copies of all nine paintings can be downloaded for ...