LIKE HEROIN -- Unknown to many of us, there is a developing "meltdown" in the world's economy and it may again trigger a financial crash. The European problems are putting the pressure on the world. In the Philippines, we are seeing volatility of the currencies...
Walay tawo nga nagkinabuhi ug nangalagad nga nag-inusa ra. Sa diwa sa panaglambigitay, tuguti ako sa pagpaambit kaninyo sa mosunod nga sulat nga gipadala nako sa mga bag-ong napili nga opisyal sa lalawigan sa Davao del Sur. Ang unod niini, haom usab alang sa mga...
The words of German psychologist and philosopher Karl Jaspers were prophetic when he said, “If I suppress something that I consider absolute, automatically, another absolute takes its place” (Jaspers, K., Filosofía, I, p. 385, English translation mine). Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger warned us, in a homily...
Certainly etched in our memories are the mother’s care for us from our earliest years. No wonder a mother’s love and care has something of sacredness in its very concept. God has been so wise indeed giving us a mother’s care even in our spiritual needs and...
I would like to describe here in detail certain aspects of that privileged moment when I concelebrated with Pope Francis in the chapel of Santa Martha inside the Vatican. That moment occurred on 25 May 2013. Those aspects showed external signs of the Pope's simplicity...
The Second Vatican Council document Optatam Totius (Decree on Priestly Formation) # 5 states, “let every priest regard the seminary as the HEART OF THE DIOCESE, gladly offering the help of his service.” It should not only be the Bishops and the priests who consider...
June 26 is the feast day of SAINT JOSEMARIA ESCRIVA, a Spanish priest who founded the OPUS DEI, now a global organization composed of religious and lay members who sanctify themselves through ordinary acts or activities. OPUS DEI literally means "work of God". Archbishop Romulo Valles...
The mother proudly asked her daughter to recite to me a childish poem she had just memorized. The poem thanked God for not giving wings to cows because if it had been so, walking outside would be such a precarious thing if the cows decided...
I HAD the privilege recently to teach a part of Church history to a group of professional men. It was that exciting part of modern history, from the renaissance period in the 16th century down to the 17th and 18th centuries and all the way to the present. We...
Niadtong miaging semana, Hunyo 23-29, nikuyog ko sa responsable sa Marian Movement of Priests (MMP) dinhi sa Pilipinas, Msgr. Cesar Pagulayan, alang sa tinuig nga spiritohanong pag-retreat sa tanang mga nasudnong responsable sa MMP. Gihimo kini didto sa Collevalenza, Italy sa Santuario dell'amore Misericordioso. Kapin sa...
