Lawyers and ethics
MY father was a lawyer, and as early as when I was in Grade 5 or 6, I already started helping around in his office which actually was in our house also. That’s when I discovered I...
Author: Fr. Roy Cimagala
Old Law, New Law
THE Catechism of the Catholic Church has a section that talks about the Old Law and the New Law. It’s an interesting section that, to me, deserves to be known by everyone. For sure, that section, which is located in the division about Christian morality,...
Boils down to Holiness
“NO man can serve two masters. For either he will hate the one, and love the other, or he will sustain the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.”...
The family and the new evangelization
AS we enter into the conclusion of the Year of Faith, it’s good to bring out to the fore again the primordial duty of the family, especially the parents, to help inculcate and spread the faith to the children and other people. We all know how...
Wean to win
WE go through life in stages. We start as a fertilized egg in our mother’s womb. Then we develop into a fetus. We are born, we are infants, a toddler, a schoolkid, an...
Spiritual investments and dividends
I BELIEVE everyone likes to make money and really to be successful in business or in whatever endeavor he likes to get into. That desire is part of our nature, and is even sanctioned in the Bible when God told Adam and Eve to go...
From lego to reality
MANY children come to me and talk very fondly about their lego toys. I must say that I had to do a little research on lego, since in my kidhood years, there were no such toys. Thus, I discovered why they like lego so much. It’s...
There’s always a happy ending
WE need to be reassured of this promise, given by no less than Christ himself. “In the world you shall have distress. But have confidence, I have overcome the world.” (Jn 16,32) These words should be indelible in our consciousness. We have to learn to look beyond...
Sharpening our charity
“I DID not come to call the righteous but sinners.” (Mt 1,13) That’s quite clear. Christ came to save all men. That’s what’s always in his mind. While not neglecting anyone, he however...
Church history
I HAD the privilege recently to teach a part of Church history to a group of professional men. It was that exciting part of modern history, from the renaissance period in the 16th century down to the 17th and 18th centuries and all the way to the present. We...