"Father, please visit my ailing mother, pray that my husband may be converted, thank you for your prayers for the board exam of my daughter, I was enlightened by your good advice during my darkest days." These are common expressions of our faithful who believe...
IT'S obvious that we have to do all we can to combat bad poverty. That's the poverty that dehumanizes us, that undermines our dignity as persons and as children of God. Anything that stands in the way of what we ought to be, both in...
Many troubles in our world, even in our inner self, come from a violation of Jesus' law: "Judge not and you shall not be judged" (Mt. 7:1). People in prison bewail the fact of their mistakes in life which they committed after a rash judgment on...
Last week I urged our readers to answer NOW the question, Why are the people poor? This question should be answered in the context of what is happening today to Filipinos in the aftermath of the massacre of 44 police men of the Special Action...
The Visit of Pope Francis from January 15 to 19 have been analyzed and interpreted in so many ways. The 2014 expose of Filipino multi-billion corruption caught the world's attention that Pope Francis had to say something about it because the faithful expected it. This...
The killing of more than 40 elite policemen of the Special Action Force (SAF) must again give us lessons. Under existing rules, there must be "prior coordination" with the MILF before the AFP or the PNP shall enter MILF territories to flush out terrorists and plain...
ONE very crucial virtue in our life is sincerity. That, of course, has something to do with truth. Our genuine development and perfection as persons and as society would depend to a large extent on how we are sincere, or on how we understand and...
One could feel how serenely tense the atmosphere was. Babies carried by their mothers, toddlers, teenagers, adults and the elderly constantly trickled into the open space and lined up layer upon layer behind a metal barrier. We anxiously waited...
The peripheries refer to the shanties, prison cells, hospitals, world of politics, finance, arts, the sciences, culture, education and social communication. In saying these words at the end of the Holy Mass at the Luneta grandstand on that rainy Sunday the eighteenth of January 2015, Manila archbishop...
Jesus had said: "Do unto others what you want others do unto you" (Mt. 7:12). This likewise implies: "Do not do unto others what you do not want others do unto you." We know how some people threw bombs to kill others and themselves too. What's the result? The...