“Padre, makasala ba gihapon ko kung modawat lang ko ug suhol sa kandidato apan dili ko mobuto niya?” The question is so timely given that this year’s election is just around the corner. When I was asked this question last Monday, I could not help but...
It calls my attention how Pope Francis puts emphasis on ecclesial communion in his address to members of the Neocatechumenal Way (published in DCH last Sunday). His first recommendation was “to take the greatest care to build and preserve the communion within the particular Churches...
“Faith in the midst of ruins” was how The Philippine Daily Inquirer put its headline the day after a 7.2-magnitude hit Central Visayas and left severe damages in Bohol and Cebu. The news focused on two statues of the Blessed Virgin Mary that stood “without...
I don’t pretend to sound very original here for there’s nothing new under the sun. But I only wish to reecho for wide diffusion the points of Bert Ghezzi in an article published a few months ago in Our Sunday Visitor (3-25-2013) (See http://www.osv.com/tabid/7621/itemid/9190/Why-Catholics-make-the-sign-of-the-cross.aspx). According to...
The words of German psychologist and philosopher Karl Jaspers were prophetic when he said, “If I suppress something that I consider absolute, automatically, another absolute takes its place” (Jaspers, K., Filosofía, I, p. 385, English translation mine). Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger warned us, in a homily...
