A celebration of the feast of St. John the Baptist will be held on June 22 at 7 p.m. at Assumption Church hall in Chicopee.

John and Jesus are, of course, not the same person, but their connection is meaningful, and John’s death at the hands of powerful rulers in some ways foreshadows what is to come for Jesus.

We can also find, in the genealogies of Christ from Matthew and Luke, some interesting people in Jesus’ family tree. For instance, you might be surprised that there were several gentiles, meaning that ...

Another concerns Jesus himself: “He was the son, so it was thought, of Joseph” (Luke 3:23). Legally, Jesus was Joseph’s son, but Joseph was not his biological father.

“The Church observes the birth of John as in some way sacred; and you will not find any other of the great men of old whose ...

Our knowledge of the figure of John the Baptist is very limited. We have only those references to him in the Christian gospels, where he stands alongside of Jesus. We also have references to him ...

John the Baptist was one of Jesus’ contemporaries in the 1 st century. The bible says John was beheaded on the orders of the local ruler Herod Antipas. Some time before his demise, John was said ...

Religion professor and “Finding Jesus” consultant Candida Moss answers viewers’ questions about John the Baptist and relics purporting to be his bones.

Purported skeletal remains of John the Baptist have been dated to the first century A.D. and so could conceivably have belonged to the "forerunner of Christ," who baptized Jesus, scientists say ...

Our knowledge of the figure of John the Baptist is very limited. We have only those references to him in the Christian gospels, where he stands alongside of Jesus. We also have references to him ...