It is not known by the average Christian Filipino that many practices and teachings of Christianity originated from paganism.
When I learned that my stepbrother Cesar died in General Luna, Quezon, I was shocked and extremely saddened. Above all, I was guilt-stricken, because weeks ago I received a request from him to buy his prescription drugs for tuberculosis. I failed to act on it quickly. I felt like banging my head on the wall. Cesar died without his medicines.
SEVERAL years ago, I received a telephone call from a friend, the movie actor and UFO enthusiast-turned-environmentalist Roy Alvarez, who had an unexpected question. “Jimmy,” he asked, “who is Milarepa?”
The theory that Christ could have been married is seen with great skepticism in the Vatican and by historians.
“Then repay to Caesar what belongs to Caesar and to God what belongs to God.”
For five Sundays, starting the last Sunday of July, we are taking the Gospel reading from John 6. We opened with the multiplication of the loaves and fish, and for the rest of the four Sundays we will hear the discourse on the bread of life. John 6 is a defining moment in the ministry and mission of Christ.
MANILA, Philippines–On the first day of the House of Representatives’ investigation of the Mamasapano massacre, PNP officer in charge Leonardo...
The euphoria won’t last. Like the adulation of the crowds during the triumphal entry of Jesus Christ into Jerusalem, the euphoria over the election of Pope Francis might not last once he poses the “unsettling questions” raised against the Church on sexual morality and other “difficult” issues confronting modern society, a Church historian said yesterday.
The Shroud of Turin, believed by devotees to be the burial linen of Jesus Christ but just as readily dismissed...
A relic is defined as “a part of a deceased holy person’s body or belongings and kept as an object...
