NEW ORLEANS– Saints fans are filled with the spirit, and a local business owner is hoping to fire up fans with her new Saints prayer candle for the 2020 season. With her prayer candles ...

The Holy Spirit may be calling plenty of people to religious life and ordained ministry, but those in power are precluding those called the ability to respond to this divine invitation.

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

SCRIPTURES & ART: Today’s readings are illustrated by the great Spanish painter, El Greco (1541-1614).

Fr. Joe said people can speculate, but there’s really no telling who the College will choose. “I have no preference,” he said. “Whoever the Holy Spirit decides, that’ll be who the pope ...

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Invoking the help of the Holy Spirit and recognizing that millions of people all over the world were praying for them, 133 cardinals entered the Sistine Chapel with a singular goal: to elect "a ...

The Holy Spirit might be called the “faceless God,” though we do not say that because it denigrates. We see the face as the portal to the soul, even if we sometimes fail to read what truly ...

People light candles as they celebrate the Holy Saturday Easter vigil in the Catholic Church of St. Mary of Snows in Bratislava, Slovakia, on Easter Eve, April 20, 2019. (photo: JOE KLAMAR / AFP ...

In 1377, fireworks accompanied a religious mystery play by the bishop’s palace in Vicenza, and were soon used to add sparks to figures of doves, representing the Holy Spirit, or angels, made to ...

From the very beginning, the church reaches decisions that are complicated, human, messy, often ad hoc—this is what the Holy Spirit protecting and guiding the church looks like.