Category: Faith & Life

Danilo Perez Ngo SFC: What advice can you give to people who still have questions about confession, if Christ is really present in the confessional? Fr Mandía: This is a matter of faith, in the sense that if you believe…

Anastasios We have already hitherto seen how many churches and Basilicas in Rome recall to us the memory of the first Christians. This is probably why Rome can be considered a “Holy City”, because its soil was drenched with the…

20 September 2020 – 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year AMatthew 20:1-16.  Fernando Armellini SCJClaretian Publications Macau In the parable, the master provokes the anger of the workers of the first hour. We may recall that he had agreed…

Danilo Perez Ngo SFC: Why Confession? Fr Mandía: I don’t know if you’ve heard this story of two friends who were speaking. One was Catholic, and the other was not. The non-Catholic friend told his Catholic friend, “You know why…

Rev José Mario O Mandíajmom.honlam.org  Church and state have their respective fields of competence and enjoy autonomy with respect to each other. The autonomy of the state with respect to ecclesiastical laws is called “secularity.”  Secularity avoids two extremes: (1)…

Corrado Gnerre Statistics have recently been published on the use of drugs by young people. These are terrible figures. We are literally getting used to self-destruction. But what is happening? I am a mother and I cannot tell you what…

Aurelio Porfiri ACHIEVEMENT Subtracting positive events This is another delicate point. How to manage achievement in performing groups? How to manage a successful concert, a good recording, the improvement in some peculiar and painful technical difficulties? Certainly to emphasize “positive…

6 September 2020 – 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year AMatthew 18:15-20 CHECK YOUR INTENTION BEFORE CORRECTING YOUR NEIGHBOUR Fr. Fernando Armellini SCJClaretian Publications Today we are invited to reflect on Jesus’ recommendations on how to recover one who…

Fausto Gomez OP By the end of June 2020, three new invocations were added to the “Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary.” In a letter addressed to all the Presidents of Episcopal Conferences throughout the world (Rome, June 20, 2020),…