How Does the Devil Work?
When we renewed our baptismal promises at Easter, we together renounced Satan and all his works and all his empty promises. How am I to understand this?...
Apologetics / Baptism / Church / Devil / Shackleton
by Michael Shackleton · Published July 10, 2018 · Last modified July 6, 2018
When we renewed our baptismal promises at Easter, we together renounced Satan and all his works and all his empty promises. How am I to understand this?...
Children have a right to be brought up in the Christian faith, Pope Francis said. Parents and godparents must make sure they “feed the flame of baptismal grace in their little ones, helping them persevere in the faith
Baptism requires rejecting Satan and professing one’s full faith in God, Pope Francis said. Only by being able to say “no” to the devil, his works and empty promises “am I able to say ‘yes’ to God, who calls me to conform myself to him in thoughts and deeds,” he said.
Baptism / Church / Holy Spirit / Pope Francis
by Kilian SC · Published May 3, 2018 · Last modified May 2, 2018
Those who receive the sacrament are given the strength to overcome “the temptation to separate from God, from his will, from communion with him and fall into the snares of worldly seductions,” the pope said during his weekly general audience.
Baptism / Christian Living / Church / Pope Francis
by Jael SC · Published April 21, 2018 · Last modified April 19, 2018
Naming a child is an important task for parents, because it gives children a sense of identity and belonging to their family and to God, Pope Francis said.
Parents who prefer not to baptise their children in the hopes that they will “understand and ask for baptism” as adults lack faith that the Holy Spirit will act in their child’s life, Pope Francis said.
Baptism / Shackleton / Sin in our Lives
by Michael Shackleton · Published December 2, 2017 · Last modified November 30, 2017
In a discussion, I was told that the Church has revised its position on original sin, so that we are not born with this sin at all. Is that true? Why, then, would baptism, which I was taught frees us from original sin, be necessary for salvation?
Mahobe mission in Umzimkulu diocese in KwaZulu-Natal celebrated the 100th anniversary of the first baptism in the area, at what was then St Anthony’s church, of infant...
Apologetics / Baptism / Jesus / Shackleton / Theology
by Michael Shackleton · Published October 15, 2017 · Last modified October 16, 2017
From as early as the first century, Christians acknowledged that Jesus Christ the man was both divine and human, as is plainly expressed in the Apostles’ Creed.
Apologetics / Baptism / Church Teaching / Shackleton
by Michael Shackleton · Published September 18, 2017 · Last modified September 17, 2017
A friend who watched a televised Mass on German television noticed that the sacrament of baptism was celebrated by total immersion. Is this a general practice? I...
When was the formula in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit first used in the rite of baptism? Christ gave this command to the...
Baptism / God & Salvation / Letter of the Week
by Letters Editor · Published April 4, 2017 · Last modified September 16, 2019
Jesus said: “Unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God” (Jn 3:5). Some Christians take these words literally to...
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