and seal as it is our guard and the sign of God's Lordship. 10 1219 The Church has seen in Noah's ark a prefiguring of salvation by Baptism, for by it "a few, that is, eight persons, were saved ...

Card Pietro Parolin will preside over the solemn ceremony as papal legate on 10 January. The structure stands on land in the ...

Baptism shows that it belongs to the Church. Both circumcision and infant baptism look forward to a time when the child will choose to believe for themselves. Therefore, infant baptism is seen to ...