Search the Scriptures, and except for the Holy Family, no person is more favored by God than St. John the Baptist. All four Gospels acclaim this holy man and set him apart from others. From before his ...

Our knowledge of the figure of John the Baptist is very limited. We have only those references to him in the Christian gospels, where he stands alongside of Jesus. We also have references to him in ...

In this painting by Giovanni Fattori (1825-1908) John the Baptist tells Herod Antipas the Tetrarch and Herodias that their marriage is unlawful because Herodias had been Herod’s brother’s wife, which ...

This Sunday’s Gospel reading offers us the perfect lesson for this second week of Advent. John the Baptist is preaching along the Jordan River, and people from all over Judea are coming to hear him.

Science and archeology offer insights into ancient artifacts that could be linked to Jesus Christ. “Finding Jesus: Fact, Faith, Forgery,” Sunday nights at 9 ET/PT on CNN. Religion professor Candida ...

Sunday, Jan. 15, is the Second Sunday in Ordinary Time. Mass readings: Isaiah 49:3, 5-6; Psalm 40:2, 4, 7-8, 8-9, 10; 1 Corinthians 1:1-3; John 1:29-34. As Ordinary Time opens and the official ...

The Sunday after Epiphany is always the Baptism of the Lord (unless Epiphany is observed on Jan. 7 or 8 in those countries like the United States where it is transferred to a Sunday, in which case the ...

‘The Chosen’ director Dallas Jenkins has revealed that this is the season of the emotional portrayal of John the Baptist’s death. The series chronicles the life of Jesus from the perspectives of his ...