Priest Slaps Crying Baby During Baptism — and the Internet is Outraged: 'This Is So Scary' Footage of a priest slapping a crying baby during a baptism has made its way around the internet, ...

DETROIT (CNS) -- The Archdiocese of Detroit is seeking to contact anyone who may have received invalid sacraments after a priest of the archdiocese learned his own baptism as an infant 30 years ...

The good news is, a botched baptism doesn't mean anyone's going to hell, according to Catholic doctrine. But it is a confusing and stressful time for parents and children who now need a baptism re-do.

1256 The ordinary ministers of Baptism are the bishop and priest and, in the Latin Church, also the deacon. 57 In case of necessity, anyone, even a non-baptized person, with the required intention ...

Barnes, Tom. "Priest Slaps Baby During Baptism as Shocked Congregation Looks On." The Independent.. 22 June 2018. Adams, Char. "Priest Slaps Crying Baby During Baptism — and the Internet is O ...

The person who was filming the baptism can be heard gasping. The priest, reluctant to let go, can then be seen grabbing the baby's neck and body before putting his face and hand over the boy's ...

Williams, 35, told TODAY.com that Sullivan’s baptism was the priest’s first at that church. She also said he accepted her multiple apologies on the youngster’s behalf.

Fr. Matthew Hood thumbs through the missal at the altar of St. Lawrence Parish in Utica, Mich., Aug. 21, 2020. Finding out he wasn’t a priest was a painful realization, but it also came with the ...

Robert Beaton, 33, pleaded no contest to charges related to attacking a priest and damaging St. Christopher Catholic Church ...

The priest at Our Lady of Pompeii Church in Lancaster, New York attempted to save the flying book but was too late as it landed into a baptism fountain leaving Williams and her loved ones stunned.

He smiles with every page turn, pointing to black-and-white photos of him as a toddler and milestones as a Catholic — his ...