CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) – This Sunday is an important day for me. I will be baptized into the Christian faith.

Deacon Greg Kandra provides a reflection on the readings and Gospel for the Presentation of the Lord, Feb. 2, 2025.

According to the National Catholic Educational Association, enrollment in Catholic schools nationwide is currently close to 1.7 million students.

CROFTON, Neb. — When she entered a recent art contest, Claire Marsh learned she had a prayer at winning. That’s prayer — as ...

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 ...

"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 ...

The Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Friday consecrated a new Catholic church at Bethany ... and consecrated the Church of the Baptism of the Lord at Al-Maghtas, known in ...

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 on Sunday celebrated the feast of the Baptism of the Lord by baptizing 21 babies in the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel and praying the Angelus with pilgrims in St. Peter’s Square.

AN ARTICLE that I read recently called the baptism of Jesus “a delicate problem of apologetics”. To understand Luke’s version, we must decide whether he is using Mark only, or another source as well.