The COVID-19 problem greatly affected the world from March 2020 to December 2022. The world during the COVID period, could not focus on the problem of food. We know that by 2050, our population will be 8 billion to about 9 billion. The world’s experts, international...
ONCE again, Christ uses a parable to impart to us the great truth of our Christian faith that we are meant to be in heaven, with God for all eternity where our definitive state of life is a sharing in the very life and nature...
“BY the power of Beelzebul, the prince of demons, he drives out demons.” (Lk 11,15) That was the reaction of some unbelieving Jews when Christ drove out a demon from a possessed person. They did not realize that their reasoning was marked by a contradiction. Thus,...
WE cannot deny that there are times when we can find ourselves in some emergency situation. We feel helpless, grasping at straws. And we find ourselves having no other alternative than to run to the nearest fellow who can lend us some help, going to...
WE should repeat these words often. (cfr. Lk 11,1) We cannot deny that even if we have been praying already for the longest time, we still can learn how to do it better. These words of Christ’s disciples express the proper attitude we ought to...
THAT rather amusing story of how the sisters Martha and Mary received Christ in their home highlights a very important aspect of our life. (cfr. 10,38-42) And that is that we have to know and live well the proper relationship between God and our work. As...
INDEED, that’s how charity is. It’s all in, irrespective of how the objects of our charity are. They may reciprocate our love for them or not, they may like us or not. On our part we should just continue to love them if charity truly...
USA has 2 kinds of law. 1. State law meaning a law passed by a state like New York. That law applies only to those who live in New York. 2. Federal Law. This is a law passed by the Federal Congress in Washington. Federal...
(Homily of Most Rev. Romulo G. Valles, D.D., Archbishop of Davao during the National Catechetical Month 2023 Launching and Rite of Admission to Candidacy for Holy Orders at San Pedro Cathedral, September 6, 2023) We are disciples of the Lord; the cost of that discipleship is...
It is essential to draw near to new forms of poverty and vulnerability, in which we are called to recognize the suffering Christ, even if this appears to bring us no tangible and immediate benefits. I think of the homeless, the addicted, refugees, indigenous peoples,...