Those who keep on attacking the Church regarding Mary and the Saints do not seem to understand the rationale behind the revered veneration. The honor rendered to Mary and the Saints is first and always because of Jesus and God. Why? This is because the honor...
In fact, more than to be tamed, politics needs to be humanized and Christianized. It has to have a soul, proper to our human dignity as persons who by nature also belong to a society, and more, who are the image and likeness of God,...
Pope Francis has repeatedly emphasized what he said during World Youth Day in Brazil that the bright and healthy future of the world depends on a balanced and creative collaboration between the elderly and the young of this generation and the next. Balance and creativity...
In 1974, during the second assembly of the Mindanao-Sulu Pastoral Conference, the Church responded to the challenge of the plight of the indigenous peoples in the Philippines. After a long history, the Episcopal Commission on Indigenous Peoples was finally approved as the official name of...
The bone of priesthood is the total person of the parish priest. How he faithfully personifies the apostleship and cascades the same to his flock resulting to individual spiritual growth is a dream come true. Another trophy, far ranging from the physical ornaments and structural projects,...
Matag tuig sa ika-2 dominggo sa Oktobre ang Simbahan dinhi sa Pilipinas nagsaulog sa “Indigenous Peoples’ Sunday.” Kung naghunahuna mo nga alang lamang kini niadtong mga dapit diin anaay mga Lumad, nasayop gayud kamo. Ang tinuod, ginahimo kining kasaulogan alang niadtong dili mga Lumad. Ang...
“It is more blessed to give than to receive,” Jesus says (Acts 20:35). “In the measure and quality you give, the same shall come back to you overflowing” (Lk. 6:38). This is the very secret of progress. But look at where world economies set their footing, following the human...
Christian faith is first of all a divine, supernatural gift that comes to us with God's grace. But since it is meant for us, then it is adapted to our human condition. In fact, it also has to be humanized, to be freely taken up...
Based on the paschal mystery, the power of the resurrection is real. Pope Francis stresses that it has permeated the whole of humanity. This is found in his first papal exhortation Evangelii Gaudium, Joy of the Gospel. The paschal mystery is the mystery of Jesus dying...
“Ang final action sa pagluwas kanato mao nga gipakita ni Kristo nga siya gibugal-bugalan ug gilansang sa krus. Apan gipildi ni Kristo ang kamatayon tungod sa pagkabanhaw,” bungat ni Yanong Muloy sa 69 ka batan-on sa wala pa sila gikompirmahan sa parokya sa San Miguel-Marahan,...