Quangpraha at Pixabay – Rev José Mario O Mandía We have previously studied two important principles that should govern social life: human dignity and the common good. These two principles lead us to two more: subsidiarity and solidarity. Today we…
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THE EUCHARIST (3) – Our Daily Bread and Spiritual Food
– Joni Cheng In the Old Testament, the manna that was given by God to the Sons of Israel in the desert was a prefiguration of the Eucharist (CCC 1094), which “He rained down upon them manna to eat, and…
ON PILGRIMAGE (3) – St Therese, the Little Flower
– Sr Margaret Fung Today is the third day of our pilgrimage, we will be very busy going from one place to another, without stop. Apart from admiring the scenery of France, this afternoon, we will arrive in Lisieux —…
ROOTS OF CRISIS – Modernity and modernism
– Aurelio Porfiri The word “modernism” perhaps does not say much to many people. Yet this current of thought was a great concern for the Church, especially in the early twentieth century. This concern came from the fact that modernism…
MARIAN APPARITIONS (76) – Vinay, France
The village of Plantees, France, was Catholic in 1649. A farmer in the area, Pierre Port-Combet, had abandoned the Catholic Faith for the heresy known as Calvinism. He refused to allow his devout wife to raise their six children in…
HUMANAE VITAE FIFTY YEARS HENCE (4) – Regulation of births
Free-Photos at Pixabay – Fausto Gomes OP Through its fifty years of development (1968-2018) of the Encyclical Letter Humanae Vitae of Pope Paul VI, three themes continue on center stage: responsible parenthood and regulation of birth, overpopulation, and poverty. In…
GAY IN THE PEW – How the Church is Reaching out to the LGBT Catholics
Fr Leonard E Dollentas “If someone is gay and searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?” These words of Pope Francis have gone viral and sent shockwaves throughout the Catholic Church and the world…
APOLOGIA (23) – Was Jesus the only Son of Mary?
Anastasios Objection 1: In the New Testament we have several evidences that Jesus has brothers (and sisters): “Is he not the carpenter’s son? Is not his mother named Mary and his brothers James, Joseph, Simon, and Judas?” (Mt 13,55); “‘Is…
SPIRITUAL NOTES ON A PILGRIMAGE (1 ＆ 2) – In the steps of the saints
Sr Margaret Fung I am very fortunate to take part in the pilgrimage of Colegio de Santa Rosa de Lima (English Secondary) in July this year as the school in Macau celebrate its 85th anniversary. The pilgrimage consists of…
BITE-SIZE PHILOSOPHY (73) – What four important ideas must we remember about society?
Rev José Mario O Mandía jmom.honlam.org As we have already said, it is part of man’s nature to associate with others. This can take many forms, two of which are necessary to man: the family and the nation. The…