The Vatican has issued a document explaining how baptisms performed with the words “in the name of the Creator, Redeemer and Sanctifier,” or other words that try to avoid masculine terms, are invalid ...

SALT LAKE CITYSALT LAKE CITY — A Las Vegas man injured while performing submersion baptisms in the name of the dead has sued The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for medical expenses. The ...

In early February, Phoenix Bishop Thomas Olmsted said baptisms performed by Fr. Andres Arango during years of ministry in the diocese are invalid, and the priest resigned as pastor of a local parish.

Southern Baptists reported a 2.2 percent increase in baptisms in 2009, stemming a four-year decline, but membership in the denomination fell and the sagging economy led to a drop in missions giving, ...

A priest with over two decades' worth of service to multiple congregations has resigned "with a heavy heart" in the wake of revelations that he incorrectly performed baptisms. Father Andres Arango, ...

A priest resigned this month after his diocese announced that thousands of baptisms he had performed were invalid because he had changed a single word. He said, "We baptize you ... ," instead of "I ...

One word caught the ear of a young priest a few years ago when his father shared a video of his 1990 baptism at a suburban Detroit church. "Wait," the Reverend ...

A Tennessee school district is under fire after student athletes were baptized on school grounds last month. After learning two football players at Springfield High School were baptized on the ...

When I was baptized, I wore a Winnie-the-Pooh T-shirt and jean shorts from Limited Too. The water in the man-made lake outside my church was cold and filled with goose poop, but I didn’t care. I was ...