Of all the great Christian feasts, none, with the exception of Easter and perhaps Christmas, has been and is more widely celebrated than Pentecost. The oldest of our festivals, just the ...

Next week, the Church celebrates Pentecost, one of the most important feast days of the year that concludes the Easter season and celebrates the beginning of the Church. Here's what you need to k ...

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

Remarkably, the three persons of the Trinity come into view with the mention of a dove; Jesus (the Son of God) comes up from the water and the Holy Spirit descends on him like a dove, and the ...

The ornithological metaphor is usually traced back to Luke 3:22 when, at Jesus' baptism by John in the Jordan, we are told that "the holy Spirit descended upon him in bodily form like a dove." ...

Jesus' baptism "is one of the most pivotal ... The Son is baptized in the Jordan River, the Holy Spirit descends like a dove and the Father's voice speaks from the heavens." This, he said, is ...

“The Spirit is the dove of peace who calms us ... Conversely, the Bible contains more than 100 references to the Holy Spirit. Jesus spoke more about the Holy Spirit than he did about marriage ...

prophecies the New Testament Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form, as a dove, upon him. See how Jesus’ baptism begins a picture-story in the New Testament about a Holy Spirit Mother in bodily ...

Even as the Lord Jesus was promising to send the Holy Spirit upon his early Church, he exhorts his followers to pray to the Holy Spirit. The Catechism recalls: “Jesus insists on this petition to ...

Drawing on the story of the wedding at Cana, Francis noted that for “so many couples, one must repeat what Mary said to Jesus, at Cana in Galilee: ‘They have no wine.’ The Holy Spirit is he ...

I believe in Jesus Christ, God’s only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried ...