Today I’d like to talk with you about being under the shadow of the Holy Spirit. And let me make this proclamation at the offset. The same power that conceived Jesus, the Son of God, within the womb ...

The work of the Holy Spirit at the Second Vatican Council is not yet finished, Pope Francis said, because many in the Church are unwilling to fully embrace what God inspired in the council fathers. In ...

Sunday, May 28, marks Pentecost, the conclusion of the Easter season and the commemoration of the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the apostles. In the Christian tradition, the rejoicing over Christ's ...

Pentecost, said Fr. Louis Cona of New York, is the "preeminent celebration of the Holy Spirit" — and is celebrated on Sunday, May 19, seven weeks after Easter. Cona is a priest of the Diocese of ...

Pope Francis has again sharply denounced the culture of clericalism among priests in the Catholic church, calling it "one of the greatest deformations" that must be confronted by the global faith ...

The Holy Spirit helps Catholics to do good works by giving them the gifts they need to be effective 'salt and light' in the world, Pope Francis said at the general audience Wednesday. Like Jesus said: ...

No matter how tough life seemed to get, our mom had a familiar adage that many who grew up around Midwestern Scandinavian grit will recognize: “Well, it could be worse.” Steeped in faith, my mom ...

I literally feel Stephen Kessler’s rage and if fixing the crisis in my church was as easy as writing a dozen paragraphs I would have done that years ago. Many of us left the church long ago, some of ...

On the Solemnity of Pentecost, Pope Francis said that Christians are called to proclaim the Gospel to everyone with gentleness and the power of the Holy Spirit. Speaking in St. Peter’s Basilica, the ...

VATICAN CITY — The Holy Spirit is at work in the latest document of the Synod on Synodality, presenters said Thursday at a press conference on the guiding text for the next stage of the synod’s ...

Pope Francis on Tuesday offered his most explicit support in his young papacy to the work of the Second Vatican Council, saying it was "a beautiful work of the Holy Spirit." He made his remarks in a ...

After a three-year hiatus, Greater Works’s doors will open to the community on July 10 to 14 with worship, empowering teachings and personal ministry. “I couldn’t be more excited to get it started ...