For a majority of Christians, the Holy Spirit is a third of the Trinity, and memorizing verses about the spirit of God are encouraged to do. "The Triune God", also known as the Father, Son, and the ...

Light shines through the Holy Spirit window in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican in this file photo. (CNS photo by Nancy Wiechec) The church is slowly reviving a treasure of the past, the Pentecost ...

It would take Steven Spielberg to create an adequate depiction of the scene in today's first reading. Think about it, the whole community stood listening "attentively" for about six hours — and that ...

We can expect to experience the power of God if we start taking risks. My name is Francis, and I was a pastor in Southern California for about sixteen years at a church that I planted. About a year ...

Jesus said that the presence and work of the Holy Spirit resembles wind blowing in the leaves of a tree. What a perfect metaphor to describe a reality that no human can understand, much less control, ...

The sixth word Christ utters from the cross brings us to the death of the Lord Jesus, crucified for our sake. “It was now about the sixth hour, and there was darkness over the whole land until the ...

This is a homily exploring what the church imagines on Pentecost Sunday. The names for the Spirit from "Veni Sancte Spiritus" should be read with good pauses between. Pentecost is the last of the ...

Pope Francis gives his blessing to visitors in St. Peter's Square at the end of his general audience at the Vatican June 12, 2024. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez) Below is the text of Pope Francis’ weekly ...