Category: Faith & Life

Miguel Augusto (*)   On 20 September, the Church celebrates the feast of Holy Martyr Andrew Kim Taegon and his companions (more than a hundred martyrs), laymen and priests who embraced Christ to the last breath. On May 6, 1984,…

Don Enrico Finotti   Our liturgies and Christian traditions are today disturbed by so many commercial distractions and so much clamor. Is it still possible to live a real Christmas?   Christmas has become world culture. Even non-Christian peoples have…

Fr Leonard E Dollentas   St Therese of the Child Jesus is a powerful intercessor and she is beloved by many. In fact, she is one of the most popular saints in the Catholic Church. If you have a devotion…

Rev José Mario O Mandía jmom.honlam.org   “Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed in the human heart a desire to know the truth –…

Anastasios   Objection 1: The Gospels were written decades after the events. Why they did not write immediately? Objection 2: If the events were reported decades later, it means the memory of what had really happened cannot be accurate. On…

Paul Kung                                Today is the memory of St Teresa of Calcutta. We gratefully make memory of her love for Jesus, whom she adored in the Eucharist and whom she served in the flesh of the poorest of the poor:…

Most Rev Fulton Sheen   These are excerpts from an article especially written by Most Rev. Fulton Sheen, Bishop of Rochester for the 11 April 1968 English edition of L’Osservatore Romano, during the pontificate of Pope Paul VI. They may…

– Anastasios In the 4th century all Christianity was shattered by an heretical doctrine, Arianism. This doctrine, among other things, taught that Jesus Christ was not the Son of God but only God’s most excellent creature. But there were lonely…

PHOTO: Sagrada Familia (Barcelona) – Rev José Mario O Mandía The five ways of Saint Thomas conclude respectively as follows: (1) First Way: Unmoved Mover and Pure Act (2) Second Way: the First Efficient Cause (3) Third Way: the Necessarily…

PHOTO: Uroburos at Pixabay – FAUSTO GOMEZ OP A Christian philosopher writes: “Truth has too many preachers and few martyrs; hence our little credibility in the world” (Carlos Diaz). Proclaiming the truth in life – even up to martyrdom –…