National Catholic Reporter

How can we get to know the Holy Spirit — and what pronoun should we use?

As I mentioned in my last column, I'm focusing a series of columns on the Holy Spirit over the next few weeks. Next I want to invite us to consider how and where we are to find the divine presence of ...
National Catholic Register

The Holy Spirit Is Not a Mere Custodian — He Is the Lord and Giver of Life

The Holy Spirit is the author of holiness and the principal agent of evangelization, and we need some holiness and evangelization in the Church today. We need the Holy Spirit to nurture holiness in ...
National Catholic Reporter

Is the church listening to the Holy Spirit's call in religious life today?

This will be the fifth, and last, of my columns in this short series on the Holy Spirit. Admittedly, there is still so much that can and ought to be said about the need for a more robust pneumatology ...
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The role of the Holy Spirit in the life of a believer

Jesus had to reassure His disciples before he left them that it was expedient for Him to go but He would not leave them as orphans but I will send you a Helper (John 14:18). He was referring to the ...