We can come to appreciate this aspect of John the Baptist’s greatness when we compare the description of his conception and birth to that of the prophet Isaiah in the first reading. There ...

Tomorrow we celebrate the birth of John the Baptist. St Luke tells us how his birth brought great joy to his parents, Elizabeth and Zechariah, and all the neighbours and relatives were overwhelmed ...

Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you will name him John” (Luke 1:13 ... even before his birth he will be filled with the Holy Spirit” (Luke 1:12-15). Courtesy National Geographic ...

As we Catholics know by now, John the Baptist was the precursor of the Messiah, the solitary voice in the wilderness, crying out to “Make straight the path of the Lord.” You can read this ...

Today on the feast of the birth of St. John the Baptist, the Holy Father greeted pilgrims gathered under the hot June sun in St. Peter’s Square for the Sunday recitation of the Angelus.

Isaiah 49, 1-6; Acts 13, 22-26; Luke 1, 57-66.80. John the Baptist’s birth is eventful enough to break the normal cycle of the ordinary Sundays. We may think the Baptist was special because he ...

This summer, the Solemnity of the Birth of Saint John the Baptist falls on a Sunday, and so it eclipses the Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time. With our American Bishops calling for a Fortnight of ...