"Unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven." (Mt 18,3) "Let the children come to me. Do not prevent them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these." (Mk 10,15) With these words of Christ, it's...
Like St. John the Baptist whose call for repentance as preparation for the coming of the Redeemer was a lonely cry in the desert, the voice of God today as well as that of the Church or of any spiritual and moral Christian teaching is...
What a wonderful prayer! The words, uttered by a most humble and honored Mary, Mother of God, Mother of Christ and our Mother, simply drip with the highest aspirations and noblest sentiments any human being can and should have. "My soul proclaims the greatness of the...
THAT’S what happens when one is in love. He is not contented with doing things just to get by or just to get a passing mark. He does things to the best of his abilities, always seeking new frontiers of creativity, effectiveness and efficiency. That’s...
In a previous column some years ago, I said that the "vox populi," the voice of the people, need not be "vox Dei," the voice of God. I cited as an example the crowd who welcomed Christ with hosannas when he entered Jerusalem for the...
I suppose it's basic and commonsensical that when we express our opinions and engage among ourselves in some exchanges of our personal views, ideas and preferences, we always need to be courteous first of all and then always to be constructive and positive in our...
We need to be wary of the danger of replacing God with our own philosophies, ideologies and theologies. This reminder was practically voiced out in Pope Francis' "Amoris laetitia," the apostolic exhortation on the family. In its point 311 we read the following words: "Although it...
That's "The joy of love" in English, the title of the latest papal document. It summarizes and integrates all the observations, findings and conclusions of the two Synods of Bishops on the family that took place in 2014 and 2015. More than that, it outlines the...
Christ, our savior, is risen, never to die again. This is the greatest news of all time. Nothing can outshine it. And with it, a dam-burst of happy consequences come our way. The only thing that can nullify this news is our freedom, that is, when...
IT happened in the Extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the Family in 2014. In fact, it exploded into a media firestorm. In tackling the question of gradualness in relation to the pastoral care of people with some moral irregularities, like the divorced and remarried, a...
