Category: Faith & Life

Aurelio Porfiri When we hear talk about sacred music, we are often reproached that we cannot expect today’s churches, mostly empty of faithful, to have the means to put on a sacred music program the way we believe it should…

Fausto Gomez OP Due to the novel coronavirus there is global fear: through 2019, a heightened degree of fear has spread throughout the world: fear of infection, fear of death, fear of losing one’s job, fear of hunger.

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…