For nearly 2,000 years, Christians all over the world have been made to believe that there are only four Gospels about the life and teachings of Jesus Christ, namely: those written by the evangelists Luke, Mark, Matthew and John.
In 1991, David Stratman came out with the book “We Can Change the World: The Real Meaning in Everyday Life.”
LALIBELA, Ethiopia—Filipino Catholics who have resolved to visit the Holy Land at least once in their lifetime but are discouraged by the tinderbox situation in the Middle East may have found the next best option in this ancient mountain town in northern Ethiopia.
Most shopping malls in the country will be closed on Maundy Thursday and Good Friday, March 23 and 24, in observance of the Holy Week.
A few weeks ago I was invited to a premiere of a romantic-comedy movie. I was asked what my takeaway was and I said: “Follow your passion and it will set things right.”
From January 24 to 31, 2016, Cebu City will be a center of the Catholic Church as the faithful from all over the world gather for the 51st International
Philippine “people power” did not start with the millions who welcomed the papal visits of Saint John Paul II in 1981 and 1995 and of Pope Francis last year. It started in 1937 when for the first time in history, the International Eucharistic Festival (IEC), the spiritual festival centered on the Holy Mass that started at the turn of the 20th century, was held in Asia—in solidly Catholic Philippines.
As I expected, many readers reacted strongly to my column last week about the pagan origins of the Jesus story.
Have you ever wondered why there are probably over a hundred thousand different, even opposing Christian religious groups, all claiming to base their beliefs on the Gospel of Christ? How can one book generate so much difference in interpretation?
After reading three versions of the Christian Bible (King James, the New Revised Standard and the Jerusalem Bible), not from a religious point of view but from esoteric knowledge and phenomena, I have realized that many of the words of Jesus have at least two meanings—the exoteric or outer meaning, and the esoteric or hidden meaning.
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