Category: Faith & Life

Papal Nuncio Archbishop Gabriele Caccia leads the 498th anniversary of the first Mass in Limasawa Island on March 31, 2019. Photo from the Diocese of Maasin (CBCP News) President Rodrigo Duterte has made the first Mass held in the Philippines…

– Fr Leonard E. Dollentas Some years ago the US-based Pew Research Center conducted its “Global Christianity” study, to determine the size and extent of the world’s Christian population. With its research center in Washington, DC in the United States,…

– Anastasios The monk John Damascene lived between the 7th and 8th century. His father was very careful in giving to him and to his adopted brother Cosmas a well rounded education in sacred and profane sciences. John would renounce…

The word “mission” comes from Latin which means “to send.” When a Person proceeds from another, He is also sent. The Son proceeds from the Father; He is sent by the Father. The Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son; He is sent by the Father and the Son. In other words, mission follows procession: the Son proceeds from the Father, and is sent to men by the Father; the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son, and is sent to men by the Father and the Son (cf CCC 258).

– Aurelio Porfiri To understand certain developments that have occurred in the field of sacred music, one must go backwards. In other words, the present can only be understood by immersing yourself in the past and trying to untangle threads…

– Don Enrico Finotti The extension of the supplements for catechesis and the abundant anthology do not facilitate the learning of a synthesis on the different questions of faith. Is it possible to have a short catechesis that gives the…

– Rev José Mario O Mandía TWO PROCESSIONS LEAD TO FOUR RELATIONS We have studied how the Son proceeds from the Father, and how the Holy Spirit proceeds from both the Father and the Son. We may ask: in what…

Edith Stein, today’s saint’s given name, was a highly cultured European intellectual. She obtained a doctorate in philosophy summa cum laude from a German university after being accepted as a student by a renowned philosopher. She mastered numerous languages and…