Here are some of the impressions most of us held about the Soviet Union in the 1970s and 1980s: overcast skies and long lines of freezing Russians waiting in line for meagre rations of food. To add to ...

While many Christians are accustomed to praying to the Father and to the Son, they are not as familiar or comfortable with praying to the Holy Spirit. The Spirit can seem very elusive, but he doesn’t ...

The church is called to pray. As disciples, we are called to have a personal life of prayer. As the body of believers – the church – we are called together to have a communal life of prayer. The two ...

The first novena ever prayed is the Pentecost Novena, or the Novena to the Holy Spirit. This year, it begins on Friday, May 19, and concludes on Saturday, May 27. Catholics worldwide often recite the ...

Today’s Gospel comes from the very last lines of the Gospel of John. It’s fitting, then, that today is the last day of the Easter season, and Pentecost comes tomorrow. Right now is the time of the ...

Light shines through the Holy Spirit window in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican in this file photo. (CNS photo by Nancy Wiechec) The church is slowly reviving a treasure of the past, the Pentecost ...

2. When was the word first used? The first surviving use of the term (there may have been earlier uses that are now lost) was about 170 A.D. by Theophilus of Antioch, who wrote: “In like manner also ...

(RNS) — The question isn’t whether a machine can pray, but whether we still know how to listen for the Spirit. (RNS) — I was recently invited to join an online webinar titled “AI & the Future of ...

When the cardinals gather in the Pauline Chapel and process to the Sistine Chapel on May 7 to begin the process of choosing a new pope, they call upon the assistance of the Holy Spirit as they sing ...