Does purgatory exist? Yes. The Church says that it is the state where all those who die in God’s friendship are assured of eternal salvation but who still have need of purification (expiation of sin) before entering heaven (CCCC 210). That purgatory exists is clear from...
It’s Prison Awareness Week. Perhaps we ask what’s in it for us. We may shrug it off since anyway prisoners are behind bars for a well deserved punishment. But wait! Not all of them are. Some could be victims of circumstances; though others could be...
By virtue of one’s baptism, we all share in the missionary work of the Church, thus we are called to become a missionary in our own way. Each one through his or her own vocation whether in married life, priesthood and religious life, or in single-blessedness...
The Archangels are spiritual beings of the highest rank created by God before the world was created. The most renowned are St. Michael or San Miguel, St. Gabriel or San Gabriel and St. Raphael or San Rafael. Each had specific duties. St. Michael whose name...
Catholic lay people have the mission to transform the world by living their faith in order to build the Church. By faith, Catholic lay people across the centuries have “professed the beauty of following the Lord Jesus wherever they were called to bear witness...
Catholics make the sign of the Cross, a gesture that means so much – security, sacrifice and salvation. Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI says, “by signing ourselves with the cross, we place ourselves under the protection of the Cross, hold it in front of us like a...
Vocation Month opens with the Eucharist presided by Most Rev. Romulo G. Valles, D.D., Archbishop of Davao at San Pedro Cathedral, September 2, 2013 at 5:30 P.M. Various Congregations conduct school visits, search-ins and discernment sessions. It is the right of religious groups to publicize...
On November 26, 2010, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI met members of the Italian Federation of Catholic weeklies representing 188 Catholic newspapers. He stressed three points. First: The Catholic Press has a very important role in forming a Christian conscience. Second, it must reflect clearly the...
When the late Senator Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino posed the rhetorical question whether the Filipinos were worth dying for, no one for a moment thought at that time that he was predicting his own assassination that eventually led to the downfall of martial law President Ferdinand...
August 4 is known as John Marie Vianney Sunday. A special collection is to be made for the on-going formation of the clergy. We remember a priest and a saint known to sit at the confessional box for hours. He often sacrificed his meals in order...
