David Rives, a Christian author and columnist, reflects on Matthew 3:17, "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased." ...

2. Anointing: In baptism we are not just washed of sins, but we also become temples of the Holy Spirit. After baptism there ...

Pope Francis on Sunday celebrated the feast of the Baptism of the Lord by baptizing 21 babies in the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel ...

According to Saint Paul, “We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was ...

Solemnity of the Baptism of the Lord year C ✠ A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke 3:15-16,21-22 A feeling of expectancy had grown among the people, who were beginning to think that John ...

Anybody might think that the only words Lancelot Andrewes wrote were the ones that inspired T S Eliot’s The Journey of the ...

As we conclude our Christmas celebrations, having been blessed with the graces of the season and the opening of the Jubilee ...

Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican Secretary of State, is the pope’s special envoy for the Mass of consecration of the Church ...

Today, each of you parents and the Church herself give the greatest, greatest gift: the gift of faith to children,” Pope ...

"This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased" (Matthew 3:17). This verse is from the Gospel of Matthew, one of the three synoptic Gospels in the New Testament of the Bible, and is about the ...