If October’s Synod on Synodality is going to contribute to the evangelization of a world sorely in need of holiness, then the Synod is going to have to take the saints far more seriously than its Working Document does. Continue Reading »
Brilliance and humility met in Bishop Victor Galeone. It was a privilege to call him teacher and friend. Continue Reading »
Only as we bow in awe before such the Triune God of glory will our present sufferings seem but light and momentary. Only then will holiness be the obvious mark of the church. Continue Reading »
Cardinal Camillo Ruini says reports of miracles—“and what miracles!”—were pouring into the Vicariate of Rome even before the canonization process began. Continue Reading »
Our working definition of holiness must include a new understanding of holy space, at least for the time being. Continue Reading »
James Baldwin was a holiness-pentecostal preacher. This historical fact as well as Baldwin’s complicated relationship to the holiness-pentecostal movement must be taken seriously. Continue Reading »
In a collection of essays entitled The Sanctified Church, Zora Neale Hurston described the traditions of the African American holiness and Pentecostal churches as a “revitalizing element” in black music and religion. As someone deeply invested in African American folk culture, . . . . Continue Reading »
The Pope leaned toward her, so that “their faces nearly touched,” and Thérèse hurriedly whispered her desire (despite her bishop’s opposition) to become a Carmelite nun. Leo, flustered by this breach of protocol, first ventured a conventional response: “Ah well, my child, do what the . . . . Continue Reading »
What to do about the female saints? Arriving at an acceptable consensus regarding the holy women of Christianity has been a persistent problem for feminist theologians. The first wave of the women’s movement tended to take a disparaging stance toward the nuns, lay spinsters, wives, mothers, . . . . Continue Reading »
Since John Cardinal O’Connor’s announcement at his Sunday Mass on November 9, 1997 at St. Patrick’s Cathedral that he was going to discuss Dorothy Day (1897-1980) as a candidate for canonization, there has been a great deal of comment on the subject in both the religious and secular media. . . . . Continue Reading »
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