Hagiography, or else the study of the lives of the saints, is built on a solid integration of good biographical insight and theological reflection. This integration is difficult to achieve. Without ...

The Holy Spirit is the author of holiness and the principal agent of evangelization, and we need some holiness and evangelization in the Church today. We need the Holy Spirit to nurture holiness in ...

Fulfilling the commandment of circumcision means taking the ordinary body of a human being and transforming it into something holy that has been brought into the covenant/treaty of Hashem’s people.

As I shared at the beginning of the year, I changed my morning devotion time a little. I am not reading a large amount of scripture, but taking a smaller portion and allowing it to speak to me ...

A word describing our culture today could be “casual.” We’ve traded our three-piece suits for skinny jeans (often with pre-made holes) and untucked shirts. We communicate substituting initials for ...

Being a Christian growing up in America in the last century, I was told by the churches that “you should never smoke, drink or abuse yourself because your body is the temple of God”. Most of the ...

The holiness of individuals and families gives life to the entire Catholic community, Pope Francis said. The call to holiness "is not only a personal event, but also a communal one," he said in an ...

The other day, I was at the first Communion of my great-niece Maeve, and was again struck, as I often am, by the holiness of beauty. Maeve is a beautiful 8-year-old (of course, aren't all 8-year-olds ...

Adults who say their holy scripture is the word of God and should be taken literally who are holiness Family (Evangelical Trad.) - Religion in America: U.S. Religious Data, Demographics and Statistics ...