Category Archives: Opinion

November 21 is the commemoration of the Presentation of Mary. As a small child, her parents, Joachim & Anne presented her to the Lord in the temple. We also commemorate the church dedicated to her presentation near the temple in Jerusalem. St. Augustine says that Mary,...

As promised in last week's Shalom Indulgences will be explained in the present article. Last week we mentioned Indulgences in our reflection on praying for the souls in purgatory. We said that we can speed up the cleansing or purging process of the souls by saying...

THAT’S right. We can’t have everything we want in this life. And the simple reason is that our human condition itself has limitations even if deep inside us there is a yearning for something without limits. Let’s remember that we are a blend of body and...

WE should have this go-getter attitude in life. Even if we are faced with tremendous difficulties and challenges, even if we suffer failures and defeats, the thing to do is simply to move on and to go on. We should never surrender. We should never...

WE have to be more familiar with what we may term as the right pro-choice. That’s because what is now more popular, especially in the more developed countries, the so-called liberated ones, is the wrong one, the bad one. And we have to do something...

WE should not miss the chance to make our work prayer also. As long as it is honest work, regardless of whether it is manual, technical or intellectual, it can and should be part of God’s providence over us, of God’s continuing work over us. As...

[caption id="attachment_22568" align="alignright" width="350"] Cardinal Orlando Quevedo (Photo by Maria Tan)[/caption]Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Orlando Cardinal Quevedo, Archbishop of Cotabato recently. After four years of waiting, that the then Abp. Quevedo was appointed as Cardinal by Pope Francis January 12, 2014 when he...