This is the title of the book of Anglican archbishop Desmond Tuto of South Africa, a Nobel Prize Peace awardee. It describes his touching experiences of reconciling his oppressed black people with their white oppressors who had massacred thousands of black South Africans under the...
For 21 years now the Bishops-Ulama Conference, which I co-founded in 1996 with the late Dr. Mahid Mutilan, has been engaged and still is, in Inter-faith Dialogue. Our members, the 24 Catholic bishops, 24 Muslim Ulama and 18 Protestant bishops & pastors, are often considered...
Yes, of course, the Church will continue to exist until the end of time. Yes, of course, evil and the devil cannot destroy the Church, however it tried for the past two thousand years. So some of us say, leave the Church alone. She will...
Marawi is bad news. EJKs is bad news. Commission on elections scandal is bad news. Corruption in Bureau of Customs is bad news. So was said by media reports. A University of the Philippines doctoral candidate came to interview me on history of interfaith dialogue from...
Last Sunday's gospel verses 28-29 of Matthew 14 describe Peter "walking on water" at the command of Jesus who, at Peter's inquiry if it was really He, said, "Come". What made Peter ask Jesus to command him to come towards Him? Was it the assurance...
St. Therese of the Child Jesus never left the monastery until she died. But she was proclaimed patroness of missionaries together with St. Francis Xavier. Why? Because the missionaries asked her to pray that God would answer their many material needs. She prayed and together...
A paradox is a seeming contradiction. It seems contradictory to say, you must die in order to live. But in the area of faith it hides an eternal truth --- there is life after death. A parable is an image in nature like sowing a seed...
By an official decree issued 18 years ago I established the parish of Sta. Ana, one of oldest parishes in the archdiocese, as a diocesan shrine dedicated to her honor and patronage. Last Monday, July 24, on the 8th day of the novena, with the...
This was the strong cry of the victims of the ongoing Marawi Crisis, according to my Maranao Muslim Ulama partners in the Bishops-Ulama Conference (BUC). They attended the Bangon Marawi Multisectoral Peace Conference which I as BUC chairman convened in Cagayan de Oro in collaboration...
Every July 16 we celebrate the feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. July 16 this year falls on a Sunday. The Carmelites may hold the solemn celebration on the next day Monday so they can use the proper liturgical texts for the occasion. Associated with...
