Today, we are six months away from last Christmas and next Christmas. The Church today celebrates the birth of Jesus’ senior relative, John the Baptist. John’s birth is described in the Bible (Luke ...

St. John the Baptist is revered in Christian churches as the last great prophet who foretold the coming of the Messiah. A Jewish contemporary of Jesus Christ, he was known for his evangelizing and for ...

Everyone in heaven worshipped God continually. John was given many visions. One of them was of a woman who was pregnant. She ...

A likeness of St. John the Baptist is seen in stained glass at Caldwell Chapel on the campus of The Catholic University of America in Washington May 25, 2021. His feast day is June 24. (OSV News photo ...

Among the characters of the New Testament who are the source of controversy and debate, after Jesus and Mary, John the Baptist perhaps ranks highest. Who this gentleman was and what he was there for ...

Tradition holds that today St. John the Baptist was beheaded. Today, we mark his martyrdom. The account of his murder is today’s Gospel: Mark 6:17-29. St. John the Baptist was, of course, a key figure ...

MASSACCIO (Maso da San Giovanni di Valdarno). 1402-1443. (Tempera, w. 13 x 18.) Birth of St. John the Baptist. One of the small pictures belonging to an altar-piece painted for the Carmine Church, at ...

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 ...

PARMA, Ohio -- Rumors about the future of Parma’s Cathedral of St. John the Baptist have been persistent. Now the future of the roughly 20-some acre church and former school has become a little ...