David Rives, a Christian author and columnist, reflects on Matthew 3:17, "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased." ...

There are limits to the theology of geography. Our souls are not physical places; our souls are spiritual realities. But ...

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 baptism of Jesus Christ — celebrated in the Catholic faith with a ...

For 24 years, the Catholic community in the region has made a pilgrimage, gathering around its patriarch, to celebrate the baptism of Jesus on Jan. 12. Speaking from the window of the Vatican’s ...

“Pope Francis sent me as his legate [personal representative] for the consecration of the Latin church on the site of Jesus’ baptism. I would like also in the name of His Holiness to thank the ...

Early Christians found the baptism of Jesus troubling. Why, they asked, was the sinless one baptised, if, as the gospel says, baptism was for the forgiveness of sins? Very soon, however ...

Three popes have visited the believed site of Jesus’ baptism on the Jordanian banks of the Jordan River: John Paul II in 2000, Benedict XVI in 2009 and Francis in 2014. Pope Paul VI first ...

Christ's Baptism 1223 All the Old Covenant prefigurations find their fulfillment in Christ Jesus. He begins his public life after having himself baptized by St. John the Baptist in the Jordan.

So Jesus himself chooses to enter human ritual. And what is ritual but a communal system of words and gestures that transmits meaning? John preaches a baptism of conversion, of radical readiness ...

The year was 1980, when good English-medium schools were few and far between. For my parents, securing admission for me at Bishop Cotton School (BCS), Shimla, was a matter of immense pride ...