Growing up, I was the youngest of five siblings—three boys, two girls. My brother, Kenny, five years my senior, was an ...

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Danny Gokey explained how inviting the Holy Spirit into your life will change everything and encouraged people to allow ...

Imagine walking through life without the Holy Spirit. No inner guide. No advocate. No quiet voice in your spirit convicting ...

The Holy Spirit has become our Teacher, and we are His pupils. He is our Instructor, and we are the apprentices. Furthermore, the full extent of the Holy Spirit’s teaching is deep and multifaceted.

Msgr. Roger Landry turned to 1997, when then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was asked on Bavarian television whether or not the Holy Spirit chooses the pope, and he answered: “I would not say so, in ...

One of them joked, “If the Holy Spirit ever showed up in there, someone would call the fire department.” Needless to say, we had a good time, and later that evening my face was sore from laughing.

Some cardinals use Holy Spirit-accessing rituals that sound a bit like cognitive behavioral therapy. Pope Benedict XVI said it’s more like a “good educator” who doesn’t pick the pope 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).