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

Some Christians wear a dove as a badge, especially those from Pentecostal or charismatic traditions. In the ark the dove brought the first proof of life to Noah, and the Holy Spirit is proof of life ...

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

The Holy Spirit has no face, but he does have a gaze. We can warm to, and benefit from, images of Christ. But remember, these are all creations of the imagination, whether they come from ...

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 ...

The white is symbolic of the dove of the Holy Spirit, and typical of the vestments that catechumens desiring baptism wear on that day. An Italian Pentecost tradition is to scatter rose leaves from the ...

The dove decides In 236, the Christian community of Rome was debating potential papal candidates when a white dove landed on the head of a bystander, Fabian.

Charisms are one of the ways in which the Holy Spirit builds up the Church, renews her, and brings her back to the fresh waters of the interior life.

The dove that descends upon Jesus during his baptism in all four Gospel accounts represents the Holy Spirit, as does its depiction in Christian iconography.

See how Jesus’ baptism begins a picture-story in the New Testament about a Holy Spirit Mother in bodily form as a dove. She is white, because She is the Light who God created in the beginning.