Category: Faith & Life

Corrado Gnerre Dear friends, I have thought of you to resolve my doubt. I am a devotee of Our Lady. I cannot imagine my prayer life without the beautiful and tender figure of Mary. However, some say that Marian devotion…

Fausto Gomez OP Pope Francis’ social encyclical “Fratelli Tutti” (all brothers, FT 2020) is “on Fraternity and Social Friendship.” The general purposeof the papal text (eight chapters, 287 numbers in 187 pages) is to contribute to the development of a…

Rev José Mario O Mandíajmom.honlam.org  The work of evangelization nowadays can become difficult when we start off from discussions about the truth and the good, thanks to the “dictatorship of relativism” (Joseph Ratzinger, 18 April 2005), where everyone decides what…

Sr Juliana Devoy After Sr Juliana’s demise, O Clarim received this touching piece which she wrote on her 60th anniversary and which we are now sharing with our readers. -Editor I have celebrated 60 years as a Good Shepherd Sister.  My…

We have already seen several basilicas in Rome called Trastevere, famous for its restaurants and for its characteristic buildings. There is another one that we should not miss, and it is the Basilica of Saint Cecilia, it is very dear…

Aurelio Porfiri On the morning of Saturday, January 9, Don Ennio Innocenti, a Roman priest, as he liked to call himself, passed away. He was born in 1932, in Pistoia and lived through the pains of war, culminating in the…

Rev José Mario O Mandíajmom.honlam.org  Why do we need special places for praying? Can we not just prayer anywhere?  Yes, one not only can but must pray wherever he finds himself. The CCCC (no 244) explains: “The worship ‘in spirit…