How do we know who the Holy Spirit is? We do not hear the Spirit speak in the same way that God the Father or God the Son have spoken, yet its presence is equally here.
Spirituality
Posted inFaith, Features
Bishop Dolan: How losing family to suicide led me to start a mental health ministry
I am a bishop, but before anything else, I am a human being who understands the severe toll of mental illness, especially when it is left untreated.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
Teilhard de Chardin, consecration and the cosmos: How a Jesuit mystic expanded the scope of theology
Teilhard’s eucharistic vision have moved many readers, including Paul VI, John Paul II and Benedict XVI.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
Why history still matters in heaven
When Christ entered heaven, he took something with him: a human nature forged by the story of our striving and suffering. When Christ became man, God entered human history. When Christ returned to his Father, human history entered God.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
My sister, daughter and the new Barbie all have Down syndrome—here’s how the new doll helps us emulate how Jesus lived
My sister, who has Down syndrome, never had dolls that looked like her growing up. Today, my kids can play with a Barbie who has Down syndrome, which allows all children to welcome people with disabilities.
Posted inFaith, Scripture Reflections
In the church’s messy disagreements, the Holy Spirit is at work. But what does that mean?
From the very beginning, the church reaches decisions that are complicated, human, messy, often ad hoc—this is what the Holy Spirit protecting and guiding the church looks like.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
What I’m Putting in My Covid Time Capsule
What will we hold onto from the pandemic? Perhaps the videos we watched and experiences we had, mostly virtual, in connecting with other people.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
How the Holy Spirit plays possum: by surprising us when we least expect it
A Homily for the Sixth Sunday of Easter, by Terrance Klein.
Like a possum playing dead, the Holy Spirit might not reveal his work in life until after the action has already taken place.
Posted inFaith, Vantage Point
From 1986: What Christians can learn from the Hindu mystic Ramakrishna
Francis X. Clooney, S.J., offers reflections in this 1986 article on the life and message of Sri Ramakrishna on the 150th anniversary of his birth (February 18) and the 100th anniversary of his death (August 15).
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
When your car causes you to sin: Driving does not encourage us to be our best selves
When we get behind the wheel, it is easy to see other human beings as mere obstacles. We need to acknowledge that driving can distort the moral sense of Catholics and all good people.