Friday consecrated a new Catholic church at Bethany Beyond the Jordan on the banks of the Jordan River officially recognized by the church as the site where John the Baptist baptized Jesus.

Fact-checking website AFP confirmed that the 33-second clip, which shows large crowds of people sleeping outside, was filmed during World Youth Day in Lisbon, not during any disaster in the United ...

Benedict Classical Academy since 2015, sees cultivating wisdom and virtue in the pursuit of truth and conformity to Christ as the final purpose of Catholic classical education ... philosophy -- the ...

Bethune’s use of clear, graphic language in illustrating saints for the Catholic Worker magazine reflects her progressive, modern approach. Initially considering frescoes, Bethune shifted to mosaics ...

The Roman Catholic Church has consistently condemned ... had conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit, and through her, Jesus Christ — second person of the Holy Trinity, consubstantial with ...

At that time: Jesus left the synagogue and entered the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John. Now Simon's mother-in-law lay ill with a fever, and immediately they told him about her. And he ...

Jesus is the Word made Flesh. Jesus is the Bread of Life. Jesus is the Victim offered for our sins on the Cross. Jesus is the Sacrifice offered at the Holy Mass For the sins of the world and mine.

In response to what was reported to be the worst U.S. aviation crash in more than a decade, Bishop Michael F. Burbidge offered a special Mass at the Cathedral of St. Thomas More in Arlington Jan. 30, ...

An ancient tooth in a crystal vessel inside a gilded silver frame at the Art Institute of Chicago was long thought to belong to John the Baptist, a contemporary of Jesus. But testing ruled that out.

The new church, one of the largest Catholic churches in the Middle East, commemorates the place where the public ministry of Jesus began. “This place, which is the holy place of the baptism of ...

So today's Gospel reading would still have resonated a great deal with 13th/14th century people. Hence, leprosy is very present in Medieval art. The key to today's Gospel reading is that Jesus ...