On "Preach," Anthony SooHoo, S.J., draws on unexpected images from Celtic Christianity in his homily for Pentecost, Year C.

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 ...

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 ...

In the center is a glass window in colors of fire. A brilliant white dove, the symbol of the Holy Spirit, stands out against it. (It is astonishing to realize that the dove has a wingspan of two ...

Pope Leo XIV has advanced the sainthood causes of two missionaries whose murders in the Amazon jungle in Ecuador led to the ...

When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but ...

This Friday, she’ll have the holy spirit in her hands serving as this year’s dove bearer in the annual Epiphany celebration. “It’s a symbolism but I truly believe the holy spirit does come ...

In his first words as Pope Francis’ successor, uttered from the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica, Leo said, “Peace be with you,” and emphasized a message of peace, dialogue and missionary evangelization ...

Cardinals electing Pope Francis's successor will have an easier time than many of their predecessors, who endured spartan conditions and were even locked up so long that some of them died. Here are ...

False doctrine is poison to the soul, and multitudes of people have been condemned for eternity after embracing lethal false doctrines ...

In a post on X, the Rae Bareli MP shared a photo of Pope Francis with a dove in his hand ... sorrow that I must announce the death of our Holy Father Francis," said Cardinal Kevin Farrell in ...

See how the Old Testament female dove received by the savior of mortal life, Noah, prophecies the New Testament Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form, as a dove, upon him. See how Jesus ...