Category: Faith & Life

– Anastasios Objection 1: How we can be sure that the Bible is talking about Jesus when it makes prophecies in the Old Testament? Objection 2: The Jews, those who were waiting for the Messiah, did not recognize him as…

– Miguel Augusto (*) On October 4th, the Catholic Church celebrates one of Her greatest saints, Saint Francis of Assisi, founder of the Order of Friars Minor (OFM), approved by Pope Innocent III in the year 1209. We take the…

– Fr Leonard E Dollentas It is in our Catholic tradition to have our patron saints. This tradition extends to the practice of naming places after saints and assigning protector saints to certain careers, or events. In the United States,…

– Fr James Chang Woo Ho BCM As you know well I was ordained to a priest a few days ago. Today I’d like to talk about how I became a priest and what I feel like today.

The history of Our Lady of Czestochowa is the history of Poland. Traditional holds that this picture of Mary was painted by St Luke the Evangelist on a piece of wood cut from the table of the Last Supper. It…

– Rev José Mario O Mandía “Always be prepared to make a defense to any one who calls you to account for the hope that is in you, yet do it with gentleness and reverence” (I Peter 3:15).  “Defense” is…

– Anastasios Ephrem the Syrian (306-373) was an important writer, hymnographer and theologian in the IV century.  We know very little about his early years and the information we have are somehow in contradiction. We know that the Bishop of…

– Fausto Gomez OP Some years ago, I was invited to reflect with the Australian Dominican Family on justice and peace in Dominican tradition and today. We closed our encounters with the celebration of the Holy Eucharist. At the offertory,…

Teresita Castillo was 21 years old when she fled her prominent home and followed her secret desire to become a Carmelite novice on July 4, 1948.  Within one month of her arrival into the convent, on July 31, 1948, satan…