Pentecost rejects a tepid Christian life. The Lord Jesus said to the apostles, “I have come to cast a fire on the earth” ...

In the June 10 speech delivered in the Clementine Hall of the Vatican Apostolic Palace, Pope Leo XIV thanked the papal ...

Papal representatives, he noted, are an image of the Catholic Church and her universality, since they hail from many nations ...

It is quite common for people to make observations about the role or meaning of the Holy Spirit based on aspects of the ...

The conquest story in Joshua belongs to a unique, time-bound moment of redemptive history. Yet Puritan pulpits universalized it, equating their ships with Israel’s Jordan crossing. Three interpretive ...

For more than 13 centuries, the Dome of the Rock has been the jewel in the crown of Jerusalem’s sacred acropolis, a sprawling area known to Jews and Christians as the Temple Mount and to Muslims ...

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

With the light and the strength of the Holy Spirit that is still the church founded on God's love ... and appeared to be in happy spirits. In one image, the prince, 67, firmly embraced his ...

No matter how brutal they become, Israel's far-right agitators cannot erase what history, geography and faith have forged ...