The first gift of the Holy Spirit, the pearl of great price, is wisdom. Wisdom appeals, as the Catechism says, to both the heart and the mind. But our sinful nature often refuses it. We all know ...

There are few things more intimate than a person’s breath. Love songs speak tenderly of our breaths, Listerine has made a fortune from sanitizing it, and emergency room physicians carefully monitor ...

"Let everything that has breath praise the Lord," the author writes in Psalm 150, verse 6. Over the past month, I’ve been thinking about breathing with more regularity. My husband, Justin, got me a ...

“He breathed on them and said, ‘Receive the Holy Spirit’” (John 20:23). When 37-year-old neurosurgeon Paul Kalinithi died of lung cancer in 2015, he and his wife had already completed an ...

The day the church was born, on Pentecost, there was the sound of a mighty rushing wind. The term used for “wind” is the same for “breath” or “spirit.” Another way to say the Holy Spirit is to say the ...

In the Creed, Christians proclaim their belief that the Church is holy. But let’s be honest: the Church is far from perfect. We see its flaws all too often. So, what does it really mean to say the ...

For a majority of Christians, the Holy Spirit is a third of the Trinity, and memorizing verses about the spirit of God are encouraged to do. "The Triune God", also known as the Father, Son, and the ...

(RNS) — The normally simple, normally unconscious act of drawing breath has come to define the United States’ most pressing problems. The country has been racked by COVID-19 — a disease that often ...

Sunday, May 19, is Pentecost. Mass readings: Acts 2:1-11; Psalm 104:1, 24, 29-30, 31, 34; 1 Corinthians 12:3b-7, 12-13; John 20:19-23. Pentecost is a feast about fire, a transformative, refining, ...