“Paul is currently growing spiritually,” said Paul Calhoun, a 54-year-old sometimes homeless gardener when I asked him what the world should know about him. It was Sunday night at Sacred Heart Church.

ROME — As the cardinals walk into the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday evening to open the papal conclave, they’ll chant the plaintive prayer that their forebears have sung for centuries: Veni Creator ...

Oddly enough, a study of the Holy Spirit in the Gospels introduces us to both the first and the last word of the New Testament concerning this doctrine. In the first three Gospels (called the Synoptic ...