All Christians are called to holiness and to take even little steps each day to be more loving and more Christ-like, Pope Francis said. "Some think that holiness is closing your eyes and making the ...

But at the heart of it, from the beginning, was the call to holiness of heart and life. As Wesley said, holiness is nothing less than “a renewal of the soul in the image of God,” or put differently, a ...

Our secular world has very low expectations for its citizens. Holiness seems out of reach and therefore unrealistic. “Have a nice day,” “Don’t do drugs,” “Don’t drink and drive” and “Don’t wear white ...

June 26 is the 50th anniversary of the death and birth into eternal life of St. Josemaría Escrivá (1902-75), the founder of Opus Dei. Pope St. John Paul II called him “the saint of ordinary life,” but ...

BALTIMORE — Holiness is possible, and the Catholic Church provides the tools for attaining it. That was the theme of an address delivered May 15 by Guinean Cardinal Robert Sarah at the Basilica of the ...

which no one could count, from every nation, race, people, and tongue (Rev 7:9). We have known them, and we know that they are now with Christ and all his saints, which is how we define heaven. Hence ...

Don’t aim for lofty, angelic separation “like Mine” but live a human holiness – the kind of life for which I created the world. Parashat ‘Kedoshim’ begins with a commandment declared before the entire ...

The great Catholic author Flannery O’Connor once wrote: “The church’s nature is to survive all crises—in however battered a fashion.” No doubt, you have already read and heard much about the current ...

Transformed by her child’s fiery death, Phoebe Palmer lit the flames of revival on two continents. In January of 1857 the editors of a national magazine published a portrait of Phoebe Palmer (facing ...