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 ...

“St. John the Baptist, we praise your great glory, for you consecrated him for a singular honor among those born of women.” “His birth brought great rejoicing; even in the womb he leapt for ...

(The birth of John the Baptist was a miracle. Here's why.) After John the Baptist was beheaded, his body was reportedly buried at Sebastia, in modern Palestine. Yet his head was discovered and ...

We usually think of St. John the Baptist as an Advent figure but here he is, in today’s Gospel, doing what he always does: pointing to Christ. The first weeks in Ordinary Time each year are ...