Nov 18, 2003 / 22:00 pm
In the present international situation, Christians have to be in communion with God, said Dario Cardinal Castrillón Hoyos, who inaugurated a series of lectures at the St. John Vianney Seminary in Denver yesterday.
The Colombian-born President of the Vatican's Congregation for the Clergy gave the first lecture of the Josephine Hanna Lecture Series, named after the late grandmother of Catholic philanthropist Frank Hanna.
"Prayer and action are important for our mission and for the sake of humankind," he said. Holiness is the end of the journey. Sainthood means imitating Christ, who is the final and exemplary cause in the journey of holiness.
His talk, however, reflected mostly on the ministry of priests, who, he said, are also called to holiness in a very specific way and are bound to acquire that perfection.