Second, this reading has no explicit connection to the resurrection. Jesus doesn’t mourn or raise his cousin, John, from the dead like he does with Lazarus. Instead, Mark’s Gospel tells us that John ...

John the Baptist usually makes an encore just before Ordinary Time, on the Feast of the Baptism of Jesus which, in the United States, usually falls on the Sunday after Epiphany.

Pope Francis encouraged Christians to remember their baptism with “joy,” as he reflected on the role of Jesus Christ’s baptism by John the Baptist in God’s saving mission for humanity.

Christ's baptism by St. John the Baptist at the Jordan River is depicted in a stained-glass window at the Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph in Brooklyn, N.Y. During Advent, we are extolled to prepare the ...

His followers had to confess their sins before baptism (Matthew 3:7, 9). John the Baptist was strange because he was going against the flow.

Archaeologists said Monday they have found a cave where they believe John the Baptist baptized many of his disciples — a huge cistern with 28 steps leading to an underground pool of water ...

John railed against hypocritical religious authorities and lewd rulers, but he also was an advocate for justice who accepted sinners and foreigners for his baptism, on the condition that they ...

When we compare the accounts of Jesus' baptism in the Gospels, it's obvious that it embarrassed the early community to admit that Jesus submitted to John.

Vodoo priestess Sallie Ann Glassman, right, blesses the musicans playing at the Feast of St. John the Baptist ceremony along the banks of Bayou St. John in New Orleans on Friday, June 23, 2023.