At first glance, self-control can sound as though it depends on personal willpower or moral discipline. But biblical ...

The Holy Spirit is the author of holiness and the principal agent of evangelization, and we need some holiness and evangelization in the Church today. We need the Holy Spirit to nurture holiness in ...

As a physician, I witness countless first and last breaths. As a Christian, I am constantly reminded of how God breathes life into us through his Spirit. The scalpel sliced through the uterine wall.

Dr. Charles Stanley (The Wonderful Spirit Filled Life) said, “To walk in the Spirit requires a moment-by moment sensitivity to and dependence on the Holy Spirit. Spiritual fruit is the proof.” ...

To be human is to be a maker of beauty and a steward of justice. Painting beneath the shifting lights of southern France, artist Paul Cézanne repeatedly turned to a simple composition: a still life ...

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 ...

Sunday, May 28, is Pentecost Sunday. 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. What a wondrous and challenging feast we celebrate at ...

Hockey player Billy Garaffa reflects on his experience after collapsing on the ice and how he says seeing God, the Holy Spirit and Jesus transformed his faith.

Almost all the scriptures were written by men. As humans have a desire to live forever, religion provides attractive offers of life after death. Humans invented God, the superhuman, to answer all the ...