Category Archives: Perspective

THIS should be very clear to all of us. We have to be merciful ourselves, because God who is our Father is merciful. Christ himself said it openly: “Be merciful as your Father is merciful.” (Lk 6,36) In the Holy Bible, numerous references to the mercy...

THAT’S “persons with disability” or “people with disabilities.” We have to distinguish their many kinds if only to better know how to care for them. This is part of the new sensitivity we should develop as the world becomes more complex each day. Remember that St....

TO be sure, Pentecost which celebrates the coming of the Holy Spirit is not an event in the past that at best is merely to be remembered if we care. It continues to take place up to now. In the first place, every liturgical celebration is...

RATHER than be sceptical, cynical and all negative about it, let’s be hopeful, confident and determined to develop and live the virtue of chastity. Yes, it’s still possible, and in fact is highly possible to live this virtue that nowadays is practically written off as...

WE are now in the Easter season, extending the happy celebration of the Resurrection of Christ, that tremendous and overwhelming divine gift that re-creates us and reconciles us with God our Father from whom we come and to whom we belong. We gleefully sing Happy Easter,...