Sunday, June 24, is the Solemnity of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist. Mass Readings: Isaiah 49:1-6; Psalm 139:1-3, 13-15; Acts 13:22-26; Luke 1:57-66, 80. Today the Church celebrates the Nativity ...

Search the Scriptures, and except for the Holy Family, no person is more favored by God than St. John the Baptist. All four Gospels acclaim this holy man and set him apart from others. From before his ...

In April of 1947, (the then) Princess Elizabeth made a radio broadcast on the occasion of her twenty-first birthday. She was abroad at the time, visiting South Africa with her parents and sister. Her ...

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. To a packed ...

Some years ago, artist St. Joseph Sr. Marian Cowan created a small sculpture of the Visitation. It depicts two pregnant women seated, bending toward one another, knee to knee, engrossed in each ...

In his homily for the feast of John the Baptist's birth, Pope Francis emphasized that a true Christian puts oneself aside in order for God to be seen, as St. John the Baptist did. "A Christian does ...

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 ...

“He asked for a tablet and wrote, ‘John is his name.’ and all were amazed” (Luke 1:64). Because the evangelists were so intent on showing seamless continuity in the plan of salvation, John the Baptist ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - While events across the country are canceled for St. Patrick’s Day, we have a few stories we hope will help keep the spirit alive. The Cathedral of St. John the Baptist is ...

This Sunday’s Gospel reading offers us the perfect lesson for this second week of Advent. John the Baptist is preaching along the Jordan River, and people from all over Judea are coming to hear him.

I’ve never understood who gets to decide how patron saints are assigned their causes. The process looks to me about as arbitrary as the way sub sandwiches get named at my local deli. John the Baptist ...