ASK FATHER: Holy Spirit or Holy Ghost?

[yankeesouth]

ASK FATHER: Holy Spirit or Holy Ghost? | Fr. Z's Blog

Any way, I don’t like the idea that we have to surrender to contemporary fashion in language. Old language is also good, so long as it communicates what it is intended to communicate. I don’t think all the old words are about to give up the ghost quite yet.

 

[pablo]

Holy Ghost comes from the Germanic - it is an Anglicised form of Geist - while Holy Spirit is from the Latin - Spiritus Sanctus