Here is a selection of quotations from the Pope’s apostolic exhortation on holiness "Gaudete et Exsultate" ("Rejoice and Be Glad"), which was released on Monday. Read the full text of the Pope ...

Love and holiness are communicable attributes of God. Love and holiness are indispensable to the genuine Christian life. Love and holiness are what the world needs to see most in the body of Christ.

A quote from Pope Francis: “May a powerful gust of holiness sweep through all the Americas during the coming Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy! Confident in Jesus’ promise, which we heard today ...

Pope Francis has issued a long apostolic exhortation on holiness in today’s world, in which he emphasizes the universal call to sanctity, highlights the pitfalls to achieving it, and recalls ...

In a video message on his 90th birthday, the Dalai Lama reaffirmed his commitment to compassion, inner peace, and universal values.

In his new book “Habits for Holiness: Small Steps for Making Big Spiritual Progress,” Fr. Mark-Mary Ames, CFR, takes 800 years of Franciscan spiritual wisdom and highlights ”small steps ...

Holiness, the pope said, is a gift God offers to everyone and a response to his grace. It is the result of hundreds of little steps and gestures each day.

God calls all Christians to be saints — not plastic statues of saints, but real people who make time for prayer and who show loving care for others in the simplest gestures, Pope Francis said in his ...

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 ...