There are many forms of goodness. There are as many as there are individuals. The number of individuals in the world today is 8 billion, more or less. That means it is possible to have 8 billion forms of goodness. Why is this so? The reason...
Twice in his first apostolic exhortation, Evangelii Gaudium (Joy of the Gospel), Our Holy Father Pope Francis uses this expression (Nos.88 & 288). This strikes me as interesting and significant. Why? ‘Intetresting’ because it calls our, at least mine, attention, especially to the twice repeated use...
Light and power generated by electricity are basic daily needs. So basic and so needed are these that every minute of our day and night is affected. Either awake or asleep we cannot be without them for a long time. In addition, water runs out when...
One of the great wonders of the world is the creation of man out of nothing. Hence man is the crown of creation. But perhaps the greatest among them is the wonder of sinners becoming saints! This is what the philosopher Soren Kierkegaard had once said....
1. The first question is, why is there a proliferation of arms and ammunitions. bombs and land mines in Mindanao? This is not about the provision on Demobilization in the Signed Agreement; it’s not only about gun running and arms smuggling either, which is common knowledge. It...
The Bishops-Ulama Conference (BUC) is 18 years old this year (28 November 1996-28 Nov. 2014). The late Islamic Dr. Mahid M. Mutilan and I, as then CBCP chair of the Episcopal Commission on Inter-religious Dialogue, co-founded this association of 24 Catholic and 18 Protestant bishops...
In last week’s Shalom I mentioned that the weapons industry or the manufacture of arms and ammunitions in some First World countries is a multi-billion dollar business. Marketlng agents of these manufacturing firms directly or indirectly sell their products to both governments and rebel groups...
As a background to help in understanding the risks involved in the apostolate of interreligiouis and ecumenical dialogues, I consider it necessary to mention my areas of responsibilities as a bishop in Mindanao and as former chairman of the Commission on Interreligious Dialogue of the...
Some time during the Japanese occupation in 1942, when I was 8, our house in Leon, Iloilo, was burned. A couple of months later my grandfather, Jose C. Capalla, was murdered in cold blood. He was then town mayor. At first I didn’t quite understand...
What is it that makes us call beautiful those objects of our experience like images, paintings, faces, sculptured figures, buildings, flowers, music, etc.? Or,also those ideas, concepts, principles behavior, dance, drama, speech, etc? At first glance, what attract us, demand our attention, are the object’s...
