The Holy Spirit is like the backstage star of the conclave. One theologian compares the concept to “the deep music in a song, the deep bass line” under the rhythm and melody.

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SISTER MARIZELE REGO, on why “Vocation,” a song she made with her fellow Brazilian nun, Sister Marisa Neves, became a viral smash hit. It is part of a movement to try to make the Roman Catholic Church ...

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The Holy Spirit brings power and fire plus much more. The fire serves at least two purposes. The Holy Spirit will burn out the trash in our lives, and also sets us on fire for God. All through the ...

Say “Holy Spirit,” and most imagine a dove or tongues of fire gently descending. But the Celts envisioned something wilder: a goose in flight—honking across the sky, untamed and impossible ...

A papal conclave blends the political and the spiritual, cardinals and theologians say. Here, in Catholic belief, is how the Holy Spirit fits in.