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 ...

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

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

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

The baptism of Christ is depicted in this painting, showing God the Father at the top, the Holy Spirit depicted by a dove, and Jesus Christ. "This declaration not only validates Jesus' identity ...

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

The fourth of these key truths revealed in Christ's baptism, Rives said, is "the fullness of the Godhead presented: The Son is baptized in the Jordan River, the Holy Spirit descends like a dove ...

In his Jan. 12 Angelus address, the Holy Father said Christians should know and celebrate the date of their baptisms as a “new birthday” that commemorates their “birth in the Spirit of God ...

From the window of the Apostolic Palace Bergoglio invited us to think about the date of the first sacrament: ‘If you do not ...

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