From Catholic News Agency:
Pope Francis said Sunday that the Christian life requires concrete commitments and spiritual combat in order to grow in holiness.
“There is no path to holiness without some renunciation and without spiritual combat,” Pope Francis said in his Angelus address Sept. 27. In the Catholic tradition, spiritual combat involves an internal “battle of prayer” in which a Christian must fight temptation, distraction, discouragement, or dryness.