We have repeatedly mentioned in this column that an object or person is considered beautiful if it shows, more or less clearly, the aspects of proportion or balance, of harmony, of unity and of order. Conversely, it is logical to conclude, that an object or person...
Yesterday, in San Pedro Cathedral, Fr. Lope Maria Polinar, AJC and Fr. Eddie Boy Maria Fuentes, AJC, were ordained to the priesthood by Davao Auxiliary Bishop, Most Rev. George B. Rimando, D.D. Last week, there were also ordinations to the priesthood in the Diocese of...
CONTRARY to the view that clerics should be completely hands-off and quiet about politics, we need to realize more deeply that clerics, in fact, have the grave duty to evangelize politics just as they ought to do the same in all the other temporal affairs...
WE have to remember that how God loves the world should also be how we ought to love the world, and everything in it, whether it is attractive to us or not, favorable to us or not. God’s love knows how to deal with all the...
TO be sure, truth is not only a matter of citing facts, data and statistics, no matter how scientifically or empirically verified they are. Truth is not simply what we can see and touch or what we can understand and prove with some arguments and...
YES, we are meant to live a spiritual and supernatural life. This, of course, will have its definitive state in heaven where we will share the eternal life of God, our Creator and Father, who has made us his image likeness and adopted us to...
Excerpts from the Homily of Most Rev. Romulo Valles, D.D., Archbishop of Davao, during the Memorial of St. John Baptiste-Marie Vianney, August 4, 2020. In relation to people, John Marie Vianney has a very important first step. He says, open your heart that your heart is...
We have just celebrated yesterday, August 15, the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. When Pope Pius XII solemnly declared this dogma on November 1, 1950, he reminded us of the virtue of hope of heaven, our final home when we live...
IF we really have a good prayer, one where we truly have an intimate encounter with God, we for sure would come out of it burning with zeal for love and concern for the others. Somehow we would catch the fire behind these words of...
Last week's column on the loss of human touch in a series of people's interactions which we have to consider as necessary for safety, sensitivity, serenity and survival. We regretted the loss even if their absence is as well necessary for our survival and common...