Aside from the always-ready International Red Cross, many governments and institutions, associations, groups of all kinds around the world have sent different forms of help to the suffering victims of the killer typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) in the Visayan Islands. Their quick response, generosity, creativity, self-sacrifice...
Because we are living in time, our thoughts, words, and actions are time-bound. It’s difficult to think, speculate, talk, behave and relate to timelessness or eternity. Part of the reasons is our innate tendency towards things material which is attributed to a wrong understanding of modernity...
Reading the title of this column makes one think immediately of the birth of the Baby Jesus on Christmas night in the stable of the little town of Bethlehem some 2,000 years ago. Christian tradition makes one always imagine many and varied aspects of the...
The topic of this column can also be worded as, The Spirituality of Remembering, which in turn can likewise be stated as, The Daily Need of Good Reminders. We all want to be with God in Heaven after death. But we have to work for it...
(Last part) In 2 previous columns I explained from theology and psychology the reasons for questions about people’s faith in God’s love and presence in the midst of suffering and death because of the calamities. I said that arguing philosophically and theologically about faith...
Why cannot some Catholics accept the Church’s answers and teaching? Why is their faith getting weaker? These were the questions I asked in the last paragraph of my column in the past week’s issue of Catholic Herald. Most of the complaints and questions against God in...
From 13 October 2012 to 24 November 2013, if I am not mistaken, we have been celebrating the Year of Faith at the encouragement of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. It was meant to deepen our spiritual capacity, or grace, to be aware, to perceive,...
Faith, in whatever religion it is associated, is a religious term that refers to something internal and personal. It is intimately related with one’s personal relationship with the Divine who is the focus of worship, prayer, and meditation. Culture is the varied ways by which a...
This title refers to organized groups of believers in our country. The number of these believers ranges from the thousands to millions. The Catholic communities are the biggest in number followed by the Protestants. Both groups are generally called Christians. The third largest are the Iglesia...
In last week’s Shalom I made mention of national healing through sincere repentance which is necessary for forgiveness. Without forgiveness there is no future for our country. Yesterday national media reported that President BS Aquino III will not apologize to Hongkong authorities for the Luneta...
