El Shaddai elects new set of officers

Posted by - January 12, 2019

Last January 06, 2019, the El Shaddai community held the commissioning of its council and ministry heads in the presence of Bishop Ryan Jimenez at San Anthonio parish. Every two years, the El Shaddai community elects its officers who will lead the entire community. The following are the council and the ministry heads: Bro. Ulysses

Read More
GIFF BEST OF FESTIVAL: Justin Ocampo (left) and Angelo Manese, directors of “We Drank Our Tears: Rafael Mafnas’s Story” stand by the Best of Festival crystal plaque from the 8th Guam International Film Festival, which their lm earned for having the most impactful effort of engagement and interactivity with the lm festival and its patrons from its festival screening to beyond the theatre walls.

Now on Amazon, We Drank Our Tears wins best of festival at GIFF; three more films planned for 2019 with Muña brothers to co-produce

Posted by - January 12, 2019

MOUNT Carmel School announced that “We Drank Our Tears: Rafael Mafnas’s Story” won the Best of Festival award at the 8th Annual Guam International Film Festival, or GIFF. The school also announced that all three “We Drank Our Tears” films are now available for rent on Amazon and that three more film will be produced

Read More

Importance of Truth (Part 2)

Posted by - January 12, 2019

The question that is still being debated is what has caused the climate change that we are now experiencing? One theory is that it is part of a long-term cycle in the climate of the planet. Over the centuries the climate varies and shifts, so that what is now desert was once a lush forest

Read More

WHAT SHOULD WE DO?

Posted by - January 12, 2019

Someone shared the story about a forgetful man at the doctor’s clinic. “Doctor, he said, I often forget things and it’s getting worse. What shall I do? The doctor replied, “ Well, first things first, and the first thing to do now is to pay me first before we start anything.       During the time

Read More

MATAKPÅNGIN I SAINA-TA

Posted by - January 12, 2019

FINE’NA NA TINAITAI                                                                         Is 42, 1-4 . 6-7 Un tinaitai ginin i Lepblun i Prufeta as Isaias Taiguini ilek-ña i Saina: I sitbentek-ku ni Hu susteteni,             i inatyek-ku ni giya guiya nai mumamaguf Yu’, Gi hilo’-ña nai Hu po’lu i espiritu-hu;             guiya chumuchuli’ i tininas para i nasion siha, Ti umå’agang huyung,

Read More
Pope Francis greets children dressed as the Three Kings as he celebrates Mass marking the feast of Mary, Mother of God, in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Jan. 1.(CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Pope prays for new year marked by tenderness, brotherhood, peace

Posted by - January 6, 2019

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — A new year is a chance for a new start, a time to remember that all people are brothers and sisters and a time to nurture amazement that God became human to save all people, Pope Francis said. The Jan. 1 feast of Mary, Mother of God, also is a time

Read More

Defuse family fights by remembering the good in the other, pope says

Posted by - January 6, 2019

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Families are “a treasure,” Pope Francis said. “They must be safeguarded always, defended.” Celebrating the feast of the Holy Family Dec. 30, the pope led a round of applause for all the families that were among an estimated 50,000 people gathered in St. Peter’s Square for the noon recitation of the

Read More
Rebecca Pohlmeier of Dumfries, Va., draws an illustration of St. Juan Diego on her iPad Oct. 26. The 16-year-old started her illustrated saints' business, Glory Be Prints, to pay for a trip with a volunteer service camp. (CNS photo/Melissa Pohlmeier, Catholic Herald)

Virginia teen draws on faith to create saintly digital illustrations

Posted by - January 6, 2019

DUMFRIES, Va. (CNS) — For high school student Rebecca Pohlmeier, it all started with her love of St. Therese of Lisieux and drawing. Now Pohlmeier, a student at John Paul the Great Catholic High School in Dumfries, has a business, Glory Be Prints, which she named for an unselfish reason: to raise funds to attend

Read More
In this 2010 file photo, Thomas and Joan Rillo of St. Charles Borromeo Parish in Bloomington, Ind., pose with Benedictine Brother Maurus Zoeller of Saint Meinrad Archabbey in St. Meinrad during a pilgrimage the monk led to visit Old Testament sites in Egypt. Joan was diagnosed with AlzheimerÕs disease that same year. (CNS photo/courtesy The Criterion)

‘God was always there’ for caregivers of loved ones with Alzheimer’s

Posted by - January 6, 2019

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (CNS) — For Thomas Rillo, it was the moment his wife could not remember how to use the computer. It was similar for Carolyn Gardner, whose husband became confused by tasks he could previously perform on autopilot. And for Dyan Huey, it was the time when her mother, looking at two of her

Read More
"I Voted" stickers are seen Nov. 6 in Baton Rouge, La. (CNS photo/Richard Meek, The Catholic Commentator)

Louisiana parishioners find ‘I prayed’ stickers help evangelize

Posted by - January 6, 2019

BATON ROUGE, La. (CNS) — An Election Day mistake opened the door wide for some real evangelization. It began as some voting locations Nov. 6 ran out of “I Voted” stickers, which are traditionally provided by the Louisiana Secretary of State’s office to people at the polls. The governmental faux pas created a deluge of

Read More