VATICAN CITY - The Holy Spirit is what gives power, life, and dynamism to evangelization, not good rhetorical skills, Pope Francis said Wednesday. According to St. Luke – Pope Francis said – the words ...

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 ...

Liturgically, we are in the season of Pentecost, shifting from Eastertide on Pentecost Sunday, May 26. The date of Pentecost depends on when Easter comes, as Pentecost is 50 days after the ...

Dean Collins reflects on Jesus’ teaching in Matthew 12 that our words expose our hearts, urging self-examination of careless ...

Find today’s readings here. “Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.” (Corinthians 3:15 – 4:1, 3-6) One of my first assignments working in Catholic media was ...

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 Feast of Pentecost celebrates the coming of the Holy Spirit upon the disciples shortly after Jesus’ resurrection, the coming of the Holy Spirit to us today and the promise of the coming of the ...

As I mentioned in my last column, I'm focusing a series of columns on the Holy Spirit over the next few weeks. Next I want to invite us to consider how and where we are to find the divine presence of ...

Pentecost let everyone hear the gospel in their first language. Bible translators work to give others that intimate experience too. Pentecost reveals a God who understands that language is more than ...

The earliest Christians believed that Christ, although no longer present in the flesh, remained among them. Many words described this presence, but one of the most common was Spirit. New Testament ...