Why can’t adults who are unconscious be baptized due to not being able to give consent, but babies can be baptized? The implication being without consent, right? Yeah, right, the baby doesn’t consent, ...

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 RELIGION GUY’S ANSWER: This question might seem absurd, since religious birth rituals are so universal. But Christian baptism of infants is being assailed by a prominent (though alienated) ...

Pope Francis on Sunday celebrated the feast of the Baptism of the Lord by baptizing 21 babies in the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel and praying the Angelus with pilgrims in St. Peter’s Square. Pope Francis ...