WE have to convince ourselves that the best way to resolve our unavoidable differences and conflicts in the area of politics, social life, and other fields prone to contention and controversies, is for us to always engage in civil discourse, in cordial dialogue. We have to...
WE need to have a good and healthy sense of nostalgia and expectation in our life here on earth. We cannot deny that we have our past and our future, and thus we cannot avoid having to refer ourselves to these points of reference. Of course,...
MANY of us are familiar with the psychological illness called bipolar disorder. It is what is described as a manic depressive illness, a mood disorder with two extremes: depressed (low) and manic (high). It varies in severity, and mild cases may appear ordinary for many...
ALTHOUGH this topic has been taken up in a column of mine some years ago, I believe it is good to make another review of it if only to know better the true face of this reality of evil in our life, its causes and...
IT is quite clear, especially these days with so many developments to cope, that managing our time, which is a very precious resource, has become a basic necessity. In fact, time management has become some kind of a rocket science that is constantly studied, researched...
IF we are truly with God, we would know how to take maximum advantage even of our difficulties, problems and all the other negative things that can take place in our life here on earth. These negative things are unavoidable, in fact. We should know...
IN all our ways and forms of communication, we should realize ever more deeply that more than just words and ideas, no matter how beautiful, wise and effective they are in human terms, we should be communicating the proper spirit, whether we are in the...
THIS should be a habit, better still, an instinct that we should develop in ourselves. It means that whatever good thing we have started, we should end, complete and perfect as much as possible. We should avoid leaving things hanging, or starting well but ending...
CONTRARY to the view that clerics should be completely hands-off and quiet about politics, we need to realize more deeply that clerics, in fact, have the grave duty to evangelize politics just as they ought to do the same in all the other temporal affairs...
WE have to remember that how God loves the world should also be how we ought to love the world, and everything in it, whether it is attractive to us or not, favorable to us or not. God’s love knows how to deal with all the...