What leadership is really all about
Fourth Sunday of Easter A (John 10:1-10) May 7, 2017 By Msgr. Lope C. Robredillo, SThD
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Marian devotion most relevant today
NOW that we are in the merry month of May, it’s good that we remind ourselves of the great importance Mary
Pope urges Vatican communications to go digital amid ongoing reform
Pope Francis told the Vatican’s Secretariat for Communications, which is holding their first plenary assembly this week, that given a growing digital culture throughout the world, new media must be…
Authentic Education within the Family
The pope asserts that “parents always influence the moral development of their children, for better or for worse.” Thus, it follows that they “should take up this essential role and carry it out consciously, enthusiastically, reasonably and appropriately” (259), employing both traditional and newer methods to guide their children. Such an approach could convey “a negative attitude towards the natural procreative finality of sexuality, as if an eventual child were any enemy to be protected against” (283).The goal must be to teach “sensitivity to different expressions of love, mutual concern and care, loving respect and deeply meaningful communication” (283). Pope Francis provides a rich and diverse list of evangelizing activities proper to the family: “solidarity with the poor, openness to a diversity of people, the protection of creation, moral and material solidarity with other families, including those most in need, commitment to the promotion of the common good and the transformation of unjust social structures, beginning in the territory in which the family lives, through the practice of the corporal and spiritual works of mercy” (290).
After visit, Pope Francis says Egypt is a ‘sign of hope’
On Wednesday Pope Francis recalled his recent visit to Egypt, saying that given its rich biblical and cultural history, the country is a sign of hope, and has a special role to play in brokering pe…
Vatican group talks new ways to help poor, marginalized
Traditional solutions to the problem of poverty typically take a top-down welfare approach, focused on fulfilling a person’s most basic needs, such as food and shelter – but which don’t…
Gina Lopez’s rejection a ‘great loss’, bishops say
Catholic bishops said that Gina Lopez’s rejection as environment chief is a ‘great loss’ to the nation.
‘Year of the Parish’ in full swing nationwide
According to Leticia Bueno, a staff of the Diocese of Baguio, a significant activity was the Basic Ecclesial Community (BEC), re-tooling seminar given to the clergy and lay leaders, which was conducted by a team from Bukal ng Tipan on Feb. “That training is our preparation to take action for another year of a pastoral call in year 2017: “The Parish as a Communion of Communities,” said Urso Aya-ay, one of the diocese’s lay leaders, in a social media post. Last year’s activity carried the theme “The Eucharist and the Family,” shared Aya-ay, and in both assemblies participants tackled the 5 characteristics of “a renewed Church.” Actively take part The executive Sscretary of the Committee on Basic Ecclesial Communities of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines, Fr.
Manila archdiocese intensifies disaster preparedness
To strengthen disaster resiliency among its more than 80 parishes, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Manila is strengthening efforts at disaster preparedness.
Rejecting an environment prophet
BIBLICAL prophets, strictly, are those whom God appoints to speak in his name and for his sake. They are his mouthpiece; in the fullest sense prophets speak God’s Word, not their own.
