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*Image: St. Thomas Aquinas by Felice Cignani, c. 1680-85 [Pinacoteca Civica di Forlì, Italy]
By Donald DeMarco, National Catholic Register, February 28, 2025
Donald DeMarco, Ph.D., is a Senior Fellow of Human Life International. He is professor emeritus at St. Jerome’s University in Waterloo, Ontario, an adjunct professor at Holy Apostles College in Cromwell, Connecticut, and a regular columnist for St. Austin Review. …
COMMENTARY: Holiness isn’t reserved for the elite — it’s the call of every Christian to live in union with God.
Our secular world has very low expectations for its citizens.
Holiness seems out of reach and therefore unrealistic. “Have a nice day,” “Don’t do drugs,” “Don’t drink and drive” and “Don’t wear white after Labor Day” are today’s moral imperatives. They represent a kind of moral minimalism. Catholics who write and talk about being holy seem to be preaching pie in the sky. But what is left undiscussed remains unknown. Holiness, in truth, is both realistic and achievable. It is well worth promoting.
Nobel Prize winner Saul Bellow has asserted that the survival of Jewish culture would have been inconceivable without stories that gave point and purpose to the Jewish tradition. Stories can be edifying. They can inspire people to live better lives. The Bible is replete with such stories. One of my favorite illustrations of holiness is from the Jewish tradition and is both instructive and edifying. …
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