Parents who prefer not to baptize their children in the hopes that they will "understand and ask for baptism" as adults lack faith that the Holy Spirit will act in their child's life, Pope Francis ...
The Holy Spirit is the tug on your heart which invites you to visit a grieving relative, to talk to a lonely person at the bus stop, to bring dinner to a neighbor who has broken her ankle, to choose a ...
The work of the Holy Spirit not only pervades the Scriptures from Genesis 1 to Revelation 22, but extends to every aspect of divine creation. Abraham Kuyper, the great Dutch theologian, summarized the ...
Believer’s baptism and baptismal regeneration represent two distinct views on the role of water baptism in salvation.
Pope Francis celebrates the baptism of 13 babies from earthquake zones in Italy in the chapel of the Domus Sanctae Marthae at the Vatican Jan. 14. (Credit: CNS photo/L’Osservatore Romano, handout.) ...
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 ...
In this photo taken on Oct. 21, 2016, Vicar Fulvio Cesare leads a baptism ceremony at a Catholic Cathedral in downtown Stockholm, Sweden. (Credit: AP Photo/Vitnija Saldava.) Listen As the Church moves ...