This portion comes to remind us that especially in a place like Puerto Viejo, where everything feels distant and liberated, ...

Words matter, and this week’s readings introduce two adjectives that deserve some consideration. Leviticus introduces the notion of “holy,” while today’s Gospel ends with “perfect.” These two ideas ...

After reciting Tashahhud, Ta‘awwuz and Surah al-Fatihah, His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad (aba) said that he would continue speaking about the lofty standards of truthfulness established ...

And they shall teach My people the difference between the holy and the profane and cause them to discern between the impure ...

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 ...

Thousands of years ago, when the timeless phrase “made in the image and likeness of God” entered into the vernacular for his people, so became the reality that as beings begotten by our Creator, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Some interpret the title of these two readings, “Aharei Mot – Kedoshim” (After Death – Holy), in a lighter mode: “After death ...