“There is a baptism with which I must be baptized. And how great is my anguish until it is accomplished!” (Luke 12:49). To understand Jesus’ anguish, we need to remember what baptism is. The act of ...

Room 325 of the Senate's Russell Office Building—the cavernous and overgilded Caucus Room—makes an unlikely theater of war. But Lt. Gen. David Petraeus underwent a baptism of fire there at his ...

In the best-known line of his Second Inaugural Address, Abraham Lincoln expressed his desire to bind up the nation’s wounds “with malice toward none; with charity for all.” A few sentences before, in ...

“I have come to set the earth on fire” (Luke 12:49). Eph 3:14-21; Luke 12:49-53 Today’s liturgy pairs one of the most majestic summations of the Christian vision with one of the scariest passages in ...

When Luci Baines Johnson celebrated her 18th birthday by entering the Roman Catholic Church a fortnight ago, Father James Montgomery capped the ceremony by pouring water on her forehead and saying: ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Baptism of Fire What at first was just another ranger duty, becomes the duty of champions trusted to protect the whole country's safety. In a race against ...