The Holy Spirit is the author of holiness and the principal agent of evangelization, and we need some holiness and evangelization in the Church today. We need the Holy Spirit to nurture holiness in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Just as the nation's founders relied on God's providence, so too must all those serving in the U.S. legal profession and government today depend on the gifts of the Holy Spirit, said the homilist ...

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 ...

Find today’s readings here. Today, the first reading recounts the conclusion of the Council of Jerusalem, a narrative that occupies most of the 15th chapter of Acts. After a controversy over whether ...

In 1957 a Dutch theologian named George Johan Sirks published an article in the Harvard Theological Review provocatively titled: "The Cinderella of Theology: The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit." Sirks ...

The Asbury Revival in Kentucky has inspired similar movements at other Christian college campuses after the around-the-clock prayer service went viral on social media. Similar revivals have emerged at ...

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 ...

What Zilpha Elaw, Julia Foote, and Sojourner Truth taught me about God’s “withness.” A Methodist woman in Albany, New York, didn’t want to go hear Zilpha Elaw preach. For one thing, Elaw was a woman, ...