Before the cardinals entered the conclave to select the next pope, they first celebrated a special Mass. Then they chanted the “Veni, Sancte Spiritus” (Come Holy Spirit) as they paraded into ...

A papal conclave blends the political and the spiritual, cardinals and theologians say. Here, in Catholic belief, is how the ...

The doctrine of the Trinity identifies the Holy Spirit as the third person in the Godhead ... of skills — to make artistic designs for work in gold, silver, and bronze, to cut and set stones ...

As amazing as this truth is, the fact that men will not believe that they have help in being what they ought not to be is ...

Bible translators work to give others that intimate ... “numerous references in the Scriptures … establish that the Holy Spirit is a person, the third person of the Trinity.” ...

To speak of the third person of the Trinity as pure ... purifying love at work in our lives. Why must the Holy Spirit sometimes be experienced as burning terror? Julian insists that her Lord ...

The cumulative weight of the Gospels leans in the direction of empathy for and solidarity with whoever is most in need of ...

Pope Francis said the Holy Spirit plays an essential role in the unity of a husband and a wife, and advised married couples to invoke the Spirit’s help for their marriage, because the separation ...

Mass Readings: Acts 2: 1-11; Psalm 104:1, 24, 29-31, 34; 1 Corinthians 12:3-7, 12-13; John 20:19-23 Today’s readings present a number of symbols of the Holy Spirit: strong, driving wind ...

Speaking in St. Peter’s Basilica, the Pope explained that the Holy Spirit’s “work in us is powerful, as symbolized by the signs of wind and fire,” but it is also gentle and “welcoming to ...