Father Joshua J. Whitfield provides a reflection for the Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph, Dec. 28, 2025.

Why do people choose a particular religion? Maud, a 46-year-old television journalist who has been drawn to spirituality ...

It occurs to me there are also different kinds of John the Baptists, different ways of making us clean and free. John does it ...

Christmas is a time when many families gather and celebrate being together one more time before the year ends.

Scriptural evidence from the Quran on Abrahamic covenant, Isaac’s lineage, and the inheritance of the Promised Land for the ...

A. Baptism was instituted, very probably, about the time Our Lord was baptized by St. John, and its reception was commanded when after His resurrection Our Lord said to His Apostles: "All power is ...

Search the Scriptures, and except for the Holy Family, no person is more favored by God than St. John the Baptist. All four Gospels acclaim this holy man and set him apart from others. From before his ...

Celebrating almost six decades of Catholic-Methodist theological dialogue, the Vatican publishing house has released a book summarizing the issues dialogue members have agreed on and briefly outlined ...

Texts from the era never link the symbol to persecution. Instead, early Christian writers associated the fish with baptism, the eucharist, and imagery from scripture—fishermen, miraculous catches, and ...

Lü Xiaomin never received formal music training. But her worship songs have made her a household name in China’s churches.

As we enjoy, if we can, this Christmas season, though the wondrous day has passed, let’s celebrate the Jewishness of ...

A look at the journey east which explains how Jesus’(as) mission to find the Lost Sheep of Israel was in fact completed.