By Fr Michael My Van Tran FROM this weekend, we enter a new liturgical season, called “Ordinary Time”. During this season, we ...

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

From the window of the Apostolic Palace Bergoglio invited us to think about the date of the first sacrament: ‘If you do not ...

Solemnity of the Baptism of the Lord year C ✠ A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke 3:15-16,21-22 A feeling of expectancy had grown among the people, who were beginning to think that John ...

Now when all the people were baptised by John the Baptist and when Jesus also had been baptised and was praying, the heavens were opened, and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form, like a ...

Anybody might think that the only words Lancelot Andrewes wrote were the ones that inspired T S Eliot’s The Journey of the ...

There are moments in "Black Doves" that feel like any given show about a spy organization full of deceit, murder and revenge.

In Israel, the portal by which a male child joins the covenanted people of God is through the rite of circumcision, done on the eighth day after birth. When it is done on the “first day” of the week, ...

Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican Secretary of State, is the pope’s special envoy for the Mass of consecration of the Church ...

2. Anointing: In baptism we are not just washed of sins, but we also become temples of the Holy Spirit. After baptism there ...

The readings for the Baptism of the Lord include the prophet Isaiah's paradoxical description of the powerful Messiah as marked by gentleness and tenderness. Our baptism joins us to his ministry in ...

I can never forget the first baptism I celebrated. I was a transitional deacon assigned to a parish in the Archdiocese of ...