Pope Francis on Sunday celebrated the feast of the Baptism of the Lord by baptizing 21 babies in the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel and praying the Angelus with pilgrims in St. Peter’s Square.

Matthew knew this story was scandalous: Jesus asked John to baptize him! Imagine what John's disciples did with this when they debated with Peter and the gang. (It's incomprehensible that the two ...

Sunday, Jan. 13, is the feast of the Baptism of the Lord. Today at 10 a.m. in the Sistine Chapel (2 a.m. U.S. Eastern Time), Pope Benedict XVI will baptize several babies in the Sistine Chapel.

"Today we celebrate the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord, which closes the period of Christmas," he said, pointing out that the Baptism is mentioned, in different ways, in all the Gospels.

Today is the Feast of the Baptism of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is very well recorded and written by the evangelists. As we all know by now, it was John the Baptist who was baptizing in the ...

Here are the words of the Epistle reading for the great feast of the Baptism of the Lord, to which I would like to draw your attention for a moment, beloved brothers and sisters in Christ. Here it ...

and is about the baptism of Jesus Christ — celebrated in the Catholic faith with a feast on the Sunday following Epiphany, or Jan. 12 this year. Jesus' baptism "is one of the most pivotal ...

today’s feast, the Baptism of the Lord, is one of the three epiphanies of Jesus’ humanity, according to the early Church Fathers. In each, Jesus reveals himself in a new way to us: as the ...

Pope Francis returned to St. Peter's Square for the Sunday prayer of the Angelus, on the occasion of the feast of the Baptism of the Lord which, according to the liturgical calendar currently in force ...

Brothers and sisters in Christ, today we celebrate the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord. We will hear in the Gospel that Jesus was baptized by his cousin John, and we hear the voice of God saying ...

Pope Francis on Sunday celebrated the feast of the Baptism of the Lord by baptizing 21 babies in the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel and praying the Angelus with pilgrims in St. Peter’s Square.

On the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord a Christian is transported by his thoughts and feelings to a time long since passed. He directs his attention to that which was accomplished at the Jordan, and ...