To live in the real, to reject illusion is to set our face toward growth and toward God.

You might ask, “Shouldn’t we all pretend to be Jesus?” We should, but that does not seem to have gotten most of us all that far. Perhaps a humbler role is a better beginning.

In times like these, the “virtuous speech” counseled by St. Francis de Sales in his The Devout Life is downright countercultural

Pope Francis has signed a decree clearing the way for Blessed John Henry Newman's canonization.

As St. Francis de Sales said, “Be who you are and be that perfectly well.”

The sainthood cause of Jesuit Father Pedro Arrupe was formally opened in Rome at the Basilica of St. John Lateran Feb. 5, the 28th anniversary of Father Arrupe's death.