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Public pianos where anyone who wishes to can strike a chord and make beautiful or less than beautiful music are a fixture in ...

Pope Leo XIV is heading to the papal summer residence for a six-week vacation. He's giving the hilltop town of Castel ...

Growing up, I was the youngest of five siblings—three boys, two girls. My brother, Kenny, five years my senior, was an ...

People pray during the Diocesan Encounter of Ecclesial Movements held at Saint Joachim Parish, Bellmawr. (Photos by Frank ...

Jimmy Spilker, regional initiatives coordinator for Young Life, leads the Diocese’s seminarians in prayer before his workshop ...

That summer I was a field education student at a small Mennonite church in north Philadelphia, completing an internship ...

And they said to him, “We have not so much as heard whether there is a Holy Spirit” [Acts 19:1-3]. Many are living in that place today.

In Acts 5.3, Ananias and Sapphira ‘lie to the Holy Spirit’ which is the same as ‘lying to God’ (Acts 5.3, 4) and face immediate judgement. And judgement, or discernment, is one of the gifts of the ...

We need a new Pentecost in our present day and time. We need the Holy Spirit in our lives to guide, to heal, to comfort, and to counsel us. May we be liberated from our fears, ignorance, pride, and ...

A Homily for Pentecost Sunday Readings: Acts 2:1-11 1 Corinthians 12:3b-7, 12-13 John 20:19-23 The Holy Spirit has no face, but he does have a gaze. We can warm to, and benefit from, images of Christ.

Pope Leo XIV talks to U.S. Vice President JD Vance and his wife Usha after a Holy mass for the beginning of his pontificate, in St Peter's basilica in The Vatican, May 18, 2025.