Sitting under stained glass windows around a wrestling ring, churchgoers roared as burly wresters body-slammed and threw one ...

For starters, the number of children of record (or infants added to the faith’s rolls) remained below 100,000, continuing a ...

Through Baptism we are freed from sin and reborn as sons of God; we become members of Christ, are incorporated into the Church and made sharers in her mission: "Baptism is the sacrament of ...

Yet baptism is central to the Christian life: commanded by Jesus, taught by the apostles, and honored, practiced, and contemplated from church fathers like Augustine of Hippo and Cyril of ...

After years of fundraising and praying, Guardian Angels in Pacoima went from a church seating 200 people to a new one that ...

This is Wrestling Church, which brings blood ... he said it’s a bit “surreal” when baptisms are held between bouts. “It works both ways,” he said. “There’s people that come here ...

At the end of 2023, the number of Catholics in the world reached 1.405 billion, up 1.15% from 1.389 billion Catholics at the ...

The highest proportion of adult baptisms is in Africa (35.9 percent) and the lowest is in Europe and the Middle East. The ...

Church attendance in the U.K. has been declining ... he said it’s a bit “surreal” when baptisms are held between bouts. “It works both ways,” he said. “There’s people that come ...