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Did you ever wonder where language comes from? The story of language, of words, is older than our human story. The Bible tells us how the very beginning, the Spirit ...

Have you ever gotten lost? You might have pulled out a map to chart where you were and where to go from there. Maps are great. When I was a child, our glove box always had maps in it. I was ...

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

What Eugene Peterson did for the pastoral imagination, Brueggemann did for the prophetic one. He made scripture strange again ...

The readings and prayers of this extended liturgy can inspire a heightened experience of the Holy Spirit in the lives of the ...

I know I am not the only person — surely not the only biblical scholar — for whom this Sunday’s reading from the Acts of the ...

This Sunday is the feast of Pentecost, fifty days from Passover (hence the name), in the Jewish calendar the festival of ...

There’s a mystery in God that’s too beautiful to fully grasp, yet too powerful to ignore. It’s not a cold doctrine or a list ...

Archbishop Bernard Hebda said that Catholics must remember that God has a plan for them and the Catholic Church. This plan is ...

Christians world over celebrate the Solemnity of Pentecost Sunday. This Solemnity, as we celebrate it, marks the ...

I have no idea what he said, but it was a gift to be near him ... we Catholics believe the Holy Spirit speaks to those cardinals and guides their decision. I hope and pray that they listen ...