Holy Spirit Roman Catholic Church

Every year my husband and I look at each other and say, “We really should do something with the kids for Advent.”  And every year, we kind of drop the ball.  Whoops. It’s not that we don’t do anything for Advent.  We always light our Advent wreath and sing O Come, O Come, Emmanuel with Read More…

A beautiful family Advent: 5 fantastic options

When we treat every uncomfortable query as morally suspect, we only imitate the reaction of the Woke Left, which treats disagreement, albeit incoherently, as intolerance.

Advent is a a time of looking towards the first coming of Christ as a baby, which is precisely why the Church spends the season contemplating His second coming at the end of time.

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“It might be said of Advent that it is not for the faint of heart. To grasp the depth of the human predicament, one has to be willing to enter into the very worst.” — [...]

Pope Leo XIV visits a care home for the elderly run by a community of the Little Sisters of the Poor in Istanbul, Turkey, on Nov. 28, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media. Istanbul, Turkey, Nov 28, 2025 / 03:00 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV visited the Nursi... [...]

Pope Leo XIV encourages Catholic clergy, religious brothers and sisters, and lay pastoral workers to see the Catholic community’s small size as a strength during an encounter at the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit in Istanbul, Turkey, on Nov. 28, 2... [...]

“What do you have that you did not receive?” (1 Corinthians 4:6). Western society has lived in open revolt against authority and tradition since the 1960s. Among the many causes and dispositions that underlie this [...]

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While Pope Leo is on his first apostolic visit in Turkey, he sent victims of a fire in Hong Kong the assurance of his closeness and prayer through his Secretary of State. A note from Cardinal Pietro Parolin to the bishop of Hong Kong, Stephen Chow Sau-Yan, assured “all those suffering from the effects of Read More…

Pope assures prayer after ‘calamity’ in Hong Kong