"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 ...

Sunday, Jan. 13, is the feast of the Baptism of the Lord. Today at 10 a.m. in the Sistine ... It’s ironic that the Catholic Church is sometimes the target of complaints about infant baptism ...

Sunday, Jan. 13, is the feast of the Baptism of the Lord. Just as when the clocks change ... your home — and strengthen your family’s Catholic identity. Today is a day to celebrate baptism.

Celebrating the Baptism of the Lord on Sunday, Pope Benedict XVI baptized ... “The Catechism of the Catholic Church and the Compendium of that Catechism, ... could prove an extremely useful ...

Pope Francis on Sunday celebrated the feast of the Baptism of the Lord by baptizing 21 babies ... For 24 years, the Catholic community in the region has made a pilgrimage, gathering around its ...

The Vatican’s secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, on Friday consecrated a new church at a place on the banks of the Jordan River that the Catholic ... of the Baptism of the Lord at ...

Baptism commissions us with the Spirit to the same mission that Jesus had. We are to be servants of the Lord working for peace ... and Organization of the Catholic Church.] ...

preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sin. Drawing on Isaiah, Luke quotes the prophet’s reference to a person coming from the wilderness preparing the way of the Lord (Is 40 ...

AMMAN — Pope Francis has appointed Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin as a papal envoy to inaugurate the Church of the Baptism of the Lord in Jordan on Friday, the Holy See announced.

The Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Friday consecrated a new Catholic church at Bethany ... consecrated the Church of the Baptism of the Lord at Al-Maghtas, known in the ...