I AM happy to note that we now have many beautiful churches around. In fact, I would say, lavishly beautiful churches, with a lot of gilding nuanced with patina, vibrant colors, beautiful images that sometimes are changed according to the liturgical season. Flowers literally cover...
IN a situation where there are a number of legitimate options to choose from, we should be careful not to impose what we consider to be the best option, if the other options are good enough and can be chosen due to some legitimate reasons...
FROM time to time, we should withdraw from our usual activities and concerns, and go into what is called a spiritual retreat where we try to get a closer if also global picture of the current state of our life. We need to see if things...
IF as a human person we already are created in God’s image and likeness, why do we need to be baptized? Isn’t it a redundancy to be baptized since we cannot help but be God’s image and likeness as early as upon our conception in...
THAT’S how our charity should be. It should not just be a consequence of purely human empathy, sympathy and compassion, although these help a lot in living charity. It should not just be a matter of human altruism and philanthropy. These are already good signs...
In the 1990s, my sala was the first Davao City Regional Trial Court to examine DNA evidence to prove the relationship between two (2) persons. A Japanese husband filed a case to annul his marriage to a Filipina. The husband attached voluminous DNA documents from...
If only we are not in the situation of the pandemic, thousands of people would flock to the Santo Nino Shrine in Matina Hills, here in Davao and in Santo Nino Basilica in Cebu and in some other churches where the Santo Nino is enshrined....
Circular No. 01 Series of 2021 11 January 2021 To: ALL PARISH PRIESTS AND CHAPLAINS OF PUBLIC CHAPELS FROM: ARCHBISHOP ROMULO G. VALLES RE: SPECIAL COLLECTION FOR THE PONTIFICAL MISSIONARY WORK OF THE HOLY CHILDHOOD, 17 JANUARY 2021 Peace! On 17 January 2021, the Philippine Church will celebrate the Feast of the...
Pope Francis of the Roman Catholic Church in Rome has an answer. The Grand Muslim Imam Ahmed Al-Tayebb at the Al-Azhar University, Cairo City, Egypt, has also an answer. But first a simple story. In a school for future rabbi in the Jewish society, a simplistic...
Taken from Jeremiah 30:17 and 2 Corinthians 5:17, this year’s theme for the National Bible Month celebration throughout January, God’s word restores, is relevant and fitting in this trying time of the pandemic. We need to be restored from the shatters of sickness and death,...