Category Archives: Opinion

Some drastic updating of our understanding of what a missionary is, is now in order. We should not get stuck with the common, textbook idea that a missionary is usually a priest or nun who goes to a far-away place, and literally starts a settlement...

I am not definitely sure. There are conflicting reports, speculations, and rumors about the current thinking, feeling, attitudes, and behavior of young Filipino Catholics regarding social issues like poverty, injustice, graft and corruption, rebellion, insurgency, elections, etc. Perhaps there are professional surveys by our Catholic educators...

One could be confused why the Bible sometimes extolled poverty, sometimes riches. “Blessed ye poor, yours is the kingdom of heaven” (Lk. 6:20). “There is none who has left house, or wife, or children, or parents or brothers and sisters who will not receive a...