Category: Faith & Life

Featured Image: One of the side altars in the cathedral of Pamplona, Navarre (Spain). (Photo by José Mario O Mandía.) – Enrico Finotti The side altars are generally abandoned. However, many of them are of great value and are part…

– Aurelio Porfiri I would like you may continue to lead us in what early Christianity is telling us about Mary Magdalene… After centuries of debates, two lines of interpretation emerged in the major Christian traditions. In the Greek Church,…

The procession of an image of Our Lady de la Breche takes place every year at Chartres, in thanksgiving for Our Lady’s having delivered the city, when besieged by heretics, in the year 1568. It was during this siege that…

Anastasios   Objection 1: When the group of the texts that were to be included in the “canon” (accepted texts) was formed, it was already late (4th or 5th century) and that was the outcome of power struggles. Objection 2:…

Rev José Mario O Mandía jmom.honlam.org We have seen that the goodness or evil of an act is based on the act itself (finis operis), the intention of the doer (finis operantis), and the circumstances surrounding it. Life, however, is…

17 JUNE 2018 – 11TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME (B) Ez 17:22-24; 2 Cor 5:6-10; Mark 4:26-34   Fr Fernando Armellini SCJ Claretian Publications, Macau   Can the growth of God’s Kingdom be accelerated? Jesus responds to this question with…

Photo: Ivan Leong   Fr Leonard E Dollentas   I was mischievous when I was boy, and my father would punish me with odd and indulgent punishments. I remember three of us boys from the neighborhood forming a gang. We…

FAUSTO GOMEZ OP In our second piece or article on HIV/AIDS, we reflect on our attitude towards those persons living with HIV. With many other Christians, the Catholic Church is deeply and widely involved through various organizations in the global…

Anastasios   Objection 1: Different religions call God with different names but they are talking about the same God, the God we believe. Objection 2: If God is the Father of all, so everyone is son and daughter of God,…

Graham-H at Pixabay Rev José Mario O Mandía jmom.honlam.org The object of the act (finis operis), the intention (or motive or finis operantis) and the circumstances: these are the three elements of an act that we need to examine in…