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Q&A with Fr Flader: Why is St John the Baptist a solemnity?

Summary by The Catholic Weekly
Saint John the Baptist in wilderness. Photo: Picryl.com. We recently celebrated the feast of St John the Baptist and I noticed that it has the highest liturgical rank of a solemnity. Why is this the case? Fr Francis X Weiser, SJ has a chapter on devotion to St John the Baptist in his wonderful Handbook of Christian Feasts and Customs (Harcourt, Brace, New York, 1958), which I have used before, and most of what follows is taken from that book. St…
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The Catholic Weekly broke the news in on Friday, July 4, 2025.
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