COMMENTARY: Baptism makes us missionary disciples in communion with God and each other. As children of God, we are sent out ...

Jesus is a faithful Son of Israel. If his people are summoned, then so is he. What will become a basic pattern of our ...

When Jesus came to John to be baptized, Matthew tells us, “John tried to prevent him, saying, ‘I need to be baptized by you, ...

Life and love are not earned by us, nor do we take them, but we receive these good gifts from God with gratitude, writes Msgr. Joseph Prior on the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord. By our baptism, we ...

"This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased" (Matthew 3:17). This verse is from the Gospel of Matthew, one of the three synoptic Gospels in the New Testament of the Bible, and is about the ...

Catholic clergy representing the Latin Church as well as Greek Catholics, Maronites, Chaldeans, Syriacs and Armenians ...

Our liturgies carry us to Christ; our worship becomes an encounter. What we adore is revealed in sacrament, revealing our ...

As the Church celebrated the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord on Sunday, Pope Benedict XVI personally baptized ten newborn infants--a first for his pontificate and a continuation of a custom begun by ...

Pope Francis said Wednesday that nothing can take away a person's baptism or the identity they thereby gain as a child of God, which is why this sacrament cannot be repeated. "Baptism is not repeated ...

From the beginning of his priesthood in 1995, the Rev. Andres Arango performed the sacred ritual of baptism. Or so he believed. For a quarter-century, Father Arango baptized thousands of children and ...