One of the most surprising if disturbing phenomena in our times is that with all the undeniable problems related to chastity, there's hardly anything done about it. No concerted effort, no campaign nor drive is being done. Problems, of course, include premarital and extramarital sex, pornography...
You might think this combination is most odd and strange, if not impossible. But whether we like or not, it's a combination that is proper to us as persons who have to establish good relation with God and everybody else, and in fact, with everything...
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,...
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...
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...
This we have to deliberately do. We cannot and should not expect that this hunger and thirst would just come about automatically, as if it is going to be physically felt and biologically dictated. This is a spiritual hunger and thirst that needs the impulses...
I always get very moved every time I attend a priestly ordination. I can't help but pray hard for the new priest. With eyes of faith, I see in that event a radical, miraculous transformation of a man, usually young, from an ordinary person---yes, already...
If there's anything that should elicit the strongest passion in us, it should be the desire to be like God. This simply corresponds to God's greatest commandment as articulated by Christ himself: “You shall love the Lord your God with your whole heart, and with...
I am referring to the cross. More specifically, the cross of Christ. It is the tree that symbolizes all our sinfulness and all its awful effects and consequences, as well as our own salvation, that is, if we look at it the way Christ did. The...
Of all the creatures on earth, we are the greatest with the highest dignity. And that's simply because we have been created “in the image and likeness” of God. To our nature that is rational, i.e., with intelligence and will, and not merely biological, is...
