A 19-page report titled “Living Out Our Baptism” accompanied the summary Bishop Walsh provided in his letter. “The overall ...

We usually think of St. John the Baptist as an Advent figure but here he is, in today’s Gospel, doing what he always does: pointing to Christ. The first weeks in Ordinary Time each year are usually ...

Every year, the Church reserves the Second and Third Sundays of Advent to introduce us to the person and preaching of St. John the Baptist. The Second Sunday usually presents his figure, while the ...

“There was a man sent from God, whose name was John” (John 1:6). Herein lies our modern-day religious dilemma: three words, “sent from God.” A generation of pulpit orators, lecturers, psychologists, ...

Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - To commemorate the birth of John the Baptist “means in actual fact, to celebrate Christ, the fulfilment of the promises of all the prophets of whom the greatest was the ...

Among the characters of the New Testament who are the source of controversy and debate, after Jesus and Mary, John the Baptist perhaps ranks highest. Who this gentleman was and what he was there for ...

Before the St. John’s Eve Voodoo ceremony got started, priestess Sallie Ann Glassman alerted the crowd of 100-plus along Bayou St. John to the possibility that someone could become possessed by a ...