A North Carolina mom started serving a week-long jail sentence for having her daughter baptized, according to reports. The 2016 baptism at St. Peter’s Catholic Church when the girl was 2 years old ...

A Duxbury teenager accused of killing his father by repeatedly dunking his dad’s head in a local pond told police that his dad’s body was “possessed by a spirit” — and that he was “baptizing his ...

A woman is serving jail time after baptizing her child. Kendra Stocks started her seven-day sentence in Charlotte on Friday. Other WRAL Top Stories "It's just very sad, it's all just a very sad ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A Shelby County mother faces contempt-of-court charges and possible jail time for baptizing her two children without the knowledge or consent of her ex-husband. This week the ...

Despite numerous controversies over dismissing gay Catholics from church posts and the U.S. hierarchy's campaign against same-sex marriage, Catholic leaders have carefully, if quietly, avoided doing ...

I was watching a movie not long ago, in which Jesus was being baptized. As he walked down into the waist-deep water of the Jordan River, greeted by John the Baptist, I thought, “OK! This is it. At ...

A North Carolina woman was jailed Friday after baptizing her daughter, violating a court order stemming from a custody battle. The custody battle included a disagreement over the terms of their ...