My personal call to sanctity does not usually involve getting up earlier than usual to read newly released Apostolic Exhortations, but in today’s newly released Gaudete et Exsultate, Pope Francis writes that the “holiness to […]
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The Complex Catherine of Siena and the Sin of Simplifying Saints
Saint Catherine of Siena (1347-1380) is an incredibly complex figure, an immensely influential and vastly charitable saint of great faith on the one hand, and a stubborn, headstrong, and deeply, fatally flawed human on the […]
Beginning a New Family Called to Holiness
Let me put something upfront: when I agreed a couple months ago to write for the fourth day of Christmas, I did not make the connection that it would also be the Feast Day of […]
Now God Knows Us
On the last Saturday of Advent I was first in line for confessions at a local parish, which offers the sacrament between its afternoon and evening masses. Others filled in beside me, and the pastor […]
Catherine Tekakwitha and the Strangeness of Holiness
Today is the feast of the newly canonized (2012) Saint Catherine Tekakwitha. In much of this post I’m relying for the historical facts and some of the theoretical discussion upon the excellent book Mohawk Saint: […]
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