converted Lithuania to Catholicism. Jan Matejko. The Baptism of Lithuania National Museum in Warsaw From that moment on, the Grand Duchy’s encouragement of Orthodoxy ceased, and the Catholic ...

Last Sunday (Jan. 12) most Christian churches celebrated the baptism of Jesus, an event in his life I always found confusing. I could never understand why Jesus was baptized. After all ...

Celebrating the 1,025th anniversary of the baptism of Kyivan Rus ... Soviet nation at the Eastern Partnership summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, in November this year. If the agreement comes into ...

"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 ...

Baptism is one of the seven sacraments of the Catholic Church and the first of the sacraments of Christian initiation, followed by Confirmation and the Eucharist. According to the Holy Scriptures ...

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.

This weekend, the Church begins to move out of the Christmas season. Pointing us to the baptism of the Lord Jesus, we now head back into Ordinary Time and its emphasis on discipleship. The ...