In one photo, a priest points a water gun at a baby in a baptism gown from several yards away. The priest, Fr. Stephen Klasek, pastor of two parishes in the diocese of Nashville: St. Mark in ...

The holy day celebrates the birth, enlightenment and death of Siddhartha Gautama, considered the founder of Buddhism. Buddhist monks Tuesday carried jars of holy water during a ceremony in ...

CNA Staff, May 26, 2020 / 11:55 am. The Tennessee priest in a now-viral photograph that seemed to depict a baptism by water gun has told parishioners that the photo was staged, and was meant to be ...

A priest's unorthodox way of administering holy water to his parishioners who are social distancing has become a sensation online. Photos showing Father Timothy R. Pelc of the St. Ambrose Parish ...

A viral photograph depicts a priest baptising a child using holy water from a toy water gun. But what really happened? Among the plethora of social distancing-inspired pictures which swept the ...

A worshipper takes holy water from an automatic dispenser at a church near Milan, Italy, Nov. 10. (Click "read more" to see the photo.) ...

Denver Newsroom, May 27, 2020 / 02:12 am. After photos appearing to depict blessings or baptisms by water gun went viral online, several priests cautioned that Catholics should take care to treat ...