‘The Holy Spirit can be said to possess an infinite creativity, proper to the divine mind, which knows how to loosen the knots of human affairs, including the most complex and inscrutable’, writes Pope Francis in Laudato si’. This Easter, Thinking Faith will be exploring how the gifts of the Holy Spirit can help us to co-operate in the loosening of those knots. Ruth Holgate begins our series as she asks: how might the gift of wisdom help us to untie the complicated knot of responding to the ‘cry of the earth and the cry of the poor’ as individuals and as communities? Read >>
In Laudato si', Pope Francis calls for the ecological conversion about which Ruth Holgate writes in the article above. Explore the encyclical 'On Care for Our Common Home' with us and discover how you can answer that call this Earth Day. Read >>
So dominant is the Holy Spirit in Acts that it is mentioned 56 times. Stephen, the first martyr, about whose death we hear in the first reading for Tuesday 20 April, is typical of those said to be ‘full of faith and the Holy Spirit’. Read >>
For the feast of St Anselm of Canterbury (21 April), Jack Mahoney SJ assesses the lasting contribution to Christian thought of this eleventh century monk, and also notes some limitations we might yet need to overcome. Read >>