THAT’S the ideal we ought to aim at in our relationship with others. Everyone should be a friend of ours, regardless of our differences and conflicts, some of them unavoidable and even unresolvable. This is the clear mark of human and Christian perfection. This is simply...
WE often ask these questions. How should our freedom be? What law governs it? Where can we find a model or pattern for it? Many people, of course, have their own ideas of freedom. But if we really want to know what it is, where it...
WE need to examine ourselves with respect to this issue. It cannot be denied anymore that there are now more cases of people, especially the young, who are badly affected by fiction stories which obviously can give us a lot of advantages and pleasures but...
SOMETIMES some people ask me if I am liberal-minded or a conservative. My standard answer has always been that I’m neither of them, but I can also be both of them. To clarify, I tell them that I just follow what my Christian faith tells me....
I’m referring to St. Joseph, the husband of Mary and the foster father of Christ. His greatness lies in his simplicity and in the simple role he carried out with so much diligence in the life of the Holy Family and of the whole world. He...
MANY people today, especially the women and some men, are quite concerned about aging. And they can get obsessed with how to slow or delay it, if not avoid it altogether. This, to me, is quite understandable, because deep within our heart and soul, we want...
LET’S never forget that because of our freedom, we always have the possibility and capability either to go up or down, to turn right or left, to move on or to stop not only physically but also morally and spiritually. In fact, in the spiritual and...
IT’S obviously a serious business when we enter into commitments. That’s when we promise to stand by them faithfully, regardless of the changing circumstances. That’s when we exercise a special kind of love that is supposed to endure till death. But how can we be faithful...
WE have to be most wary of the so-called Frankenstein effect of our new technologies. As defined by some dictionary, the Frankenstein effect is “any agency or creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator.” It is like a sweet poison,...
THERE’S a certain urgency to make the family today an effective center of formation. With all the growing developments and complicated challenges of our times, we cannot afford to sit pretty and just allow blind fate to take its course. We have to take the...
