OPINION

If we would just put our mind and heart into praying them, if we would just pray them with faith and piety, there is no way but for us to be transported deep into the spiritual and supernatural world where our deepest yearnings are satisfied, at least for a time. We should never underestimate the …

Our works, to be truly good and capable of sanctifying us, should be sanctified first of all by our faith and the grace of God. Without the latter, our works would only be apparently good and can occasion many other dangers to us. There is, of course, a close relation between our faith and our …

I would like to congratulate Ayala Foundation whose flagship project “Brigada ng Ayala” was recently recognized by an international publication as the “best CSR initiative” in the Philippines.  Brigada ng Ayala is the Ayala group’s unified effort to support the Department of Education‘s Brigada Eskwela and Oplan Balik Eskwela programs. International Business Magazine, a Dubai, …

In the words of St. Paul, the Son of God emptied himself to become man, and he emptied himself further by suffering death for our sake, and death on the cross. Let us try to go through his passion and death to have a good idea of what Christ our redeemer had to undergo to …

The most fundamental question is what happens if the “emperor” dies? It’s a grim and stark reminder that death can happen anytime and to anybody especially in this tumultuous time where hundreds of business owners have already died. A future death of a business owner and its myriad of consequences is something that needs to …

We know, of course, that with our wounded, sinful human condition at present, our spirit is not yet totally that of the spirit of God. In fact, it may somehow be dominated by the spirit of the flesh, of the world, if not, God forbid, of the devil itself. We should be experts in discerning …

In recent years, novel applications have emerged—some even with life-saving potential. For instance, a Japanese firm called Brain found a novel way to tap AI to identify pastries for the convenience of bakeries across Japan. Imagine this. On your next grocery trip (wearing a face mask of course), you pick up an item listed on …

” I think pageant girls just have a way of faking it until you make it, almost.” — Hannah Brown What transpired in Florida, USA on May 16 was a “Miss Latinaverse” and not a Miss Universe competition, many people who followed the event have suspected. We were all taken for a ride?  Even the …

The environmental experts have been right about their predictions at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The dawn of biological and chemical terrorism is now slowly taking place. Natural disasters happen at the extreme of the consequence we never would have imagined.  As the global attention today focused on the raging pandemic, the looming danger …

Empathy glues us together as a people, enabling us to enter into one another’s lives as we are supposed to do, building up our sense of unity and solidarity despite the variety of our conditions and situations. And so anything that undermines it undermines us as a people, as a society, as a family. If …