Why Do You Call Things Perfect? No One Is Perfect But God Alone
The once-lofty word has become a placeholder — but Christ used it to call you to holiness.
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John Paul II Embodied the Heroism of Christian Holiness
COMMENTARY: Let us heed the great pope’s oft-repeated words, “Be not afraid!” and with courage respond to his witness and intercession to make fully practical this call to holiness he spent his pontificate echoing and enfleshing throughout the world.
The True Meaning of Holiness
COMMENTARY: Holiness isn’t reserved for the elite — it’s the call of every Christian to live in union with God.
We Need to Recover a Sense of the Sacred in God’s House — and Here’s How We Can Begin
We honor Almighty God by arriving for Mass ahead of time and blessing ourselves as we enter our Father’s house.
Living a Whole and Holy Christian Life
We must all better understand and pursue God’s design in everyday life.
Summer Book Club: The Catholic Guide to Developing Good (and Holy) Habits
BOOK PICK: ‘Habits for Holiness’
Full Text: Pope Francis’ Homily for the Canonization Mass of 10 Saints
‘By embracing with enthusiasm their vocation — as a priest, as a consecrated woman, as a layperson — they devoted their lives to the Gospel. They discovered an incomparable joy, and they became brilliant reflections of the Lord of history.’
Human Wholeness Is Found in Christian Holiness
“The human body shares in the dignity of the ‘image of God’ — it is a human body precisely because it is animated by a spiritual soul, and it is the whole human person that is intended to become, in the body of Christ, a temple of the Spirit.” (CCC 364)
Like Socrates, Catholics Have to ‘Box With Shadows’
As we continue our divine mission, we will experience backlash from powerful but foolish people.
Mysticism Is a Social Priority
“A life of prayer is an absolutely universal human vocation,” said Cardinal Daniélou, which makes it a “political problem” as well.
