We have many trials and challenges in life but these are also opportunities to test our faith in God, identify our weaknesses and resilience. We learn lessons from our life’s troubles and victory is greater when the battle is fiercer. In Matthew’s Gospel, 7: 13-14, Jesus implies that there are two different roads that we
There is a story told by the theologian Lawrence Cunningham, former chairman of the Theology Department at the University of Notre Dame, about a student who came to him to sign up for a freshman theology course. The student explained that he was an atheist. He would do the course work, but he didn’t believe
FINE’NA NA TINAITAI Wis 1, 13-15; 2, 23-24 Un tinaitai ginin i Lepblun Tinemtum Ti si Yu’us fuma’tinas i finatai, ni ti nina’mamaguf Gui’ gi finatai i lala’la’. Sa’ Ha fa’tinas todu i kosas siha kosaki u fanggai lina’la’; ya i fina’tinas siha guini na tånu’ mambråbu, ya tåya’ peknu’ na binenu gi entalu’-ñiha
By: Julie Ann Loong for the North Star The Most Reverend Bishop Ryan P. Jimenez, D.D. presided over the San Roque Parish Confirmation Mass last Saturday, June 16, 2018. The parish priest, Father Allan Cabatian, O.A.R and Father Neil Bullos, O.A.R were also present during the mass. A total of six candidates for confirmation were
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Ten Commandments given by God are meant to protect his children from self-destruction; they are not harsh rules meant to enslave and oppress, Pope Francis said. Since the days of Adam and Eve, the devil has sought to deceive people into believing that the rules set forth by God are
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (CNS) — A new document focused on guiding the American church in addressing the pastoral needs of Asian and Pacific Island Catholics was approved by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops during their annual spring assembly. Adopted 187-2 with two abstentions, “Encountering Christ in Harmony” is described as a “pastoral response” meant to provide
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Exploiting women or treating them like objects is a sin against God, Pope Francis said. “There is a rage against women, terrible rage,” the pope said in his homily June 15 during morning Mass at Domus Sanctae Marthae. It will do people good — especially those who enjoy freedom — to
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — All dictatorships begin the same way: media outlets are put in the hands of “unscrupulous” people who spread lies and weaken democracy, Pope Francis said. Typical standards, norms and laws in regard to communications are first eliminated, the pope said in his homily June 18 during morning Mass at Domus Sanctae
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis denounced the practice of administering prenatal tests to determine birth defects that often lead to abortions, comparing it to the Nazi-era eugenics program that determined what lives were worth keeping or eliminating. Children are God’s greatest gift and should be welcomed “as they come, as God sends them, as
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The theory that well-being will automatically flow down to everyone from the riches of the few is “a lie,” Pope Francis said. The beatitudes show the way, he said, because they show that holiness doesn’t concern just the soul, “but also the feet — for going toward our brothers and sisters,
