Articles on this issue "holiness"
The president of the Vatican's council for interreligious dialogue says that politics can be a path to holiness, but that one has to enter public service without seeking anything in return. …
read more"The only worthwhile striving is after the highest ideals: If you aim for an easy target, your standard will inevitably decline, and no progress is ever made, except through real effort and …
read moreOn behalf of Benedict XVI, the prefect of the Congregation for Sainthood Causes read the formula of beatification of Eurosia Fabris in the cathedral of Vicenza, Italy. Cardinal José Saraiva …
read moreThe Church will canonize three more saints, including a Ukrainian archbishop and a priest who founded a newspaper. The Vatican Congregation for Sainthood Causes promulgated the decrees for the …
read moreFabio Zavattaro, a journalist who covers the Vatican, appreciates John Paul II's pontificate through the saints and blessed he has proclaimed. Journalist Zavattaro has just finished writing …
read moreJohn Paul II hopes that the Year of the Eucharist will be a time of encounter with Christ for believers and nonbelievers alike. The Pope expressed this today when praying the midday Angelus …
read moreJohn Paul II opened the Year of the Eucharist, presenting Jesus as the response to the longing for life that rises from a world threatened by shadows. After presiding over a solemn Mass today …
read moreBy Father Edward McNamara As we have just celebrated this column's first anniversary I would like to thank all of our readers for the great interest they have shown in my attempts to answer …
read moreAmong the six people John Paul II will canonize this Sunday is José Manyanet y Vives, a priest who helped renew society by holding up the Holy Family of Nazareth as an example. He was born in …
read moreJohn Paul II chose the month of May to pray that the conjugal bond between a man and a woman may be recognized by all as the fundamental cell of society. Every month, the Pope chooses two …
read moreThe Catholic Church will soon have two new canonized saints and 10 new blessed, according to decrees promulgated by the Congregation for Sainthood Causes. "The saints are the most credible and …
read moreAmong the Church's newest beatified is Luigi Maria Monti, an 19th-century apostle to the sick and poor. In the homily at the beatification on Sunday, John Paul II summarized Monti's life by …
read moreJohn Paul II beatified five19th century Europeans Sunday as models for a society that turns everything into "merchandise." The new blesseds challenge "present-day society, tempted at times to …
read moreAmong the five people John Paul II will beatify this Sunday is Spanish religious Bonifacia Rodríguez Castro, who promoted the sanctification of work. She founded the Congregation of Handmaids …
read moreAmong the five people to be beatified next Sunday is Belgian priest Father Valentin Paquay, a Franciscan who radiated apostolic fervor by preaching, hearing confessions and giving spiritual …
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