“The Clergy and Consecrated Persons” is this year’s CBCP theme for the Catholic Church in the Philippines. It is a historical-spiritual milieu to prepare our journey towards the 500th anniversary of the Catholic Faith in 2021. I then pondered on how the clergy and consecrated persons...
ESPECIALLY in our prayer that plays a crucial role in our life, we need to learn how to turn distractions into enhancers. We cannot deny that very often our prayer is hounded by all sorts of impertinent and stray thoughts that would practically annul the...
Celebrating the 26th annual Wold Day of the Sick on February 11 is a call to being restored to the purity and wholeness of life. Jesus’ mission was to give humanity life to the full: “I have come that they may have life, life in...
EVERYONE should learn to be contemplative. We are actually meant for it. Equipped and wired for it, we reach our ideal situation when we manage to become contemplatives even in the middle of the world. We have to start with ourselves before we can dare...
IF we understand that our creation is still a work in progress, that our life here on earth is a life with God in Christ through the Holy Spirit who is still shaping and directing it until we become his image and likeness, and children...
Message of Archbishop Romulo G. Valles at the Opening of the CBCP 116th Plenary Assembly in Cebu City, January 27, 2018 Welcome to our CBCP 116th Plenary Assembly! I also asked permission from the good Archbishop of Cebu, Archbishop Jose Palma, to say this: Maayong Pag-abot dinhi...
In a world of plenty, poverty still abounds as great numbers lie in need of basic needs in life. The “signs of the times” still point to the need to respond with generous hearts to the cries and longings of our less fortunate brothers and...
In his Lenten message 2018 our Holy Father Pope Francis is calling our attention to the Gospel love or charity getting frozen by the moral climate fast changing into freezing point. This is a good metaphor for the dangerous over-turn of moral values where wrong...
In the womb, the unwanted child is in danger of being aborted. A drug addict fears of being killed. The elderly may be a victim of euthanasia. In these situations, we need to become Pro-lifers. The Most Rev. Romulo G. Valles, D.D., President of the Catholic...
Many of my colleagues in local media will agree with me that the cancellation of Rappler’s registration to operate by Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is not an attack to press freedom. No, it is not an attack to press freedom. Rather, it is a...