To achieve their goal of creating a holy people, the Pharisees had become quite aggressive. All the people must become holy, lest one desecrate the land and dispel God’s presence. The Pharisees couldn ...

The holiness of saints is reflected not only in how they overcame struggles but by their ability to transmit the joy that comes from being loved by God, Pope Francis said. The gift of sharing the love ...

Pope Francis on Thursday addressed participants of the study conference “Community Dimension of Holiness,” which had gathered in Rome from Nov. 13–16 at the Augustinian Patristic Pontifical Institute ...

The holiness of saints is reflected not only in how they overcame struggles but by their ability to transmit the joy that comes from being loved by God, Pope Francis said. The gift of sharing the love ...

I’ve been making that claim for almost a decade now, each day realizing more what it means. I grew up in a church tradition that could make neither heads nor tails of saints. Although the veneration ...