Religious symbols are technologies of transformation. The images, stories, and rituals of religion meet us where we are and carry us to some new place, to some new us. They grab hold of us in ...

The Holy Spirit is the breath of God in us. He breathes on his apostles and gives them the ability to forgive sins. He breathes on us, too, and we also become his representatives.

Fr. Daniel P. Horan notes that "Holy Spirit atheism" has real and practical consequences. We need to remember the Lord, the giver of life, he says.

A Homily for Pentecost, Year C, by Fr. Anthony SooHoo, S.J. Most of us are familiar with the traditional images of the Holy Spirit: the dove, the wind, the tongues of fire.

The Holy Spirit comes to dwell in us once again as in a temple (1 Corinthians 3:16). Tongues of Fire The text from Acts then says, “Then there appeared to them tongues as of fire, which parted ...

In the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday, the cardinals will call to the Holy Spirit with different images. “Living fountain, fire, love … finger of the Father’s right hand,” the prayer reads in ...

The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity raises questions like these. The Scriptures offer tremendous help in our search to know what God is like, not because they give us a clear answer, but ...

That sound was both the result of the Spirit and, like the Spirit, akin to the way it was described during Pentecost, as a “strong, driving wind” (Acts 2:2).

University President William P. Leahy, S.J., will celebrate the annual Mass of the Holy Spirit with homilist Claudio Burgaleta, S.J., rector of the Boston College Jesuit Community, on September 7 at ...

Religious symbols work beyond the reach of reason and spark transformation we could not create for ourselves. Holy Week is a symbol in which to get lost and be changed.