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...
Circular No. 20 Series of 2020 17 August 2020 Peace! On the recommendation of those in charge of their seminary formation and those in charge of their formation in the archdiocese, Reverend Deacons MARVIN MAGALLANES DEL CAMPO of San Antonio de Padua Parish in Agdao and EFREN ANTIGA GUBAC...
An excerpt of the homily of the Most Rev. Romulo G. Valles, D.D., during the Holy Mass on the occasion of the opening of the 35th Kadayawan sa Davao, in San Pedro Cathedral, August 10, 2020. (Part 1 of 2) Now with the Mayor present and...
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...
We have repeatedly mentioned in this column that an object or person is considered beautiful if it shows, more or less clearly, the aspects of proportion or balance, of harmony, of unity and of order. Conversely, it is logical to conclude, that an object or person...
Yesterday, in San Pedro Cathedral, Fr. Lope Maria Polinar, AJC and Fr. Eddie Boy Maria Fuentes, AJC, were ordained to the priesthood by Davao Auxiliary Bishop, Most Rev. George B. Rimando, D.D. Last week, there were also ordinations to the priesthood in the Diocese of...
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...
TO be sure, truth is not only a matter of citing facts, data and statistics, no matter how scientifically or empirically verified they are. Truth is not simply what we can see and touch or what we can understand and prove with some arguments and...
YES, we are meant to live a spiritual and supernatural life. This, of course, will have its definitive state in heaven where we will share the eternal life of God, our Creator and Father, who has made us his image likeness and adopted us to...