On the eve of Pentecost, Pope Leo XIV prayed that the Holy Spirit would help Catholic lay associations, movements and ...

The pontiff addressed a massive crowd, estimated by the Vatican at around 70,000, in St. Peter's Square on June 7 during a ...

The word Pentecost comes from the Greek pentēkostē, meaning "fiftieth." It commemorates the moment when Christ, having risen and ascended, fulfilled his promise by sending the Holy Spirit upon the ...

WORD ALIVEOnce an archbishop was discussing Christianity with a learned Japanese writer. The writer told the archbishop, ...

We read in the Acts of the Apostles, when the day of Pentecost had come, they were together in one place. Suddenly there came ...

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

The Holy Spirit reveals himself to each of us through signs that would appear to anyone else to be nothing more than ...