Like improvising musicians, the Holy Spirit is the energy that makes the transcendent connection and divine co-creation necessary for beautiful music, says Fr. Daniel Horan.

Say “Holy Spirit,” and most imagine a dove or tongues of fire gently descending. But the Celts envisioned something wilder: a goose in flight—honking across the sky, untamed and impossible ...

This year's dove bearer is 17-year old Elena Gonatos. She comes from a family of dove bearers and a cross retriever.

“The Spirit is the dove of peace who calms us, the gift giver who equips us, the river of living water who flows out of us to refresh the world.” Max Lucado – “Help Is Here” Fifteen ...

The Holy Spirit is like water. Water fills all things; it is gentle like dew or strong like a flood; it seeps into what will let it, bringing life, and pushes aside what will not.

The white is symbolic of the dove of the Holy Spirit and typical of the vestments that catechumens desiring baptism wear on that day.

A papal conclave blends the political and the spiritual, cardinals and theologians say. Here, in Catholic belief, is how the Holy Spirit fits in.

See how the Old Testament female dove received by the savior of mortal life, Noah, prophecies the New Testament Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form, as a dove, upon him.

A marble sculpture depicting the Holy Trinity. The Holy Spirit is represented as the dove above both God the Father and Jesus Christ. (iStock) ...