At a press conference on September 19, the prefect and secretary of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints were joined by a Roman sociology professor in discussing an upcoming four-day conference, “Holiness Today.”

The conference, which begins on October 3 at the Augustinianum Patristic Institute, “stems from the need to bring into dialogue with today’s world the themes on which the work for the causes of beatification and canonization is carried out on a daily basis,” said Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, the dicastery’s prefect.