Understanding who the Holy Spirit is within the Godhead is as difficult as understanding how God is one in being yet three in persons. Perhaps, someday, when we come into God’s presence this sort of ...

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 ...

Year after year, as students of mine worked their way through the Divine Comedy, they found it strange—magnificently strange at times, at times disturbingly so. One feature of Dante’s poem that ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis explained that the Holy Spirit’s gift of understanding allows Christians to obtain “intimacy with God” and helps them understand things “as God understands them.” “When the ...

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 ...

The work of the Holy Spirit not only pervades the Scriptures from Genesis 1 to Revelation 22, but extends to every aspect of divine creation. Abraham Kuyper, the great Dutch theologian, summarized the ...

The faithful gather to pray April 27, 2025, in Rome's Basilica of St. Mary Major where Pope Francis is buried. (CNS photo/Pablo Esparza) A word from the editor in chief: I am writing this note shortly ...

RELATIONSHIP teaching has never been given its rightful place on many of our pulpits. We have never thought of ourselves as ...

There is a certain paradox at the heart of Christian prayer. One sees it most clearly in two of the central passages of the New Testament about prayer: “For all who are led by the Spirit of God are ...