Was John the Baptist “Welcoming”?
Today we celebrate the memorial of the Passion of St. John the Baptist. The Church recognizes him as a martyr, killed because he stood up for the sanctity of marriage against divorce. Jesus honored his prophetic cousin by stating that “among those born of women there has risen no one greater than John the Baptist” (Matthew 11:11). When Jesus asked His Apostles “who do people say that I am”—a...