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  • The Way of the Cross

    The Way of the Cross

    CBCPNews,

    We are about to recall the suffering and death of our Lord on the cross.Why did he suffer and die? What is the meaning of his death on the cross?

  • Making a good homily

    Making a good homily

    CBCPNews,

    Rightly or wrongly, people often gauge the value of the Holy Mass by the quality of the homily they hear during that celebration.

  • Prophetic engagement: the Church’s calisthenics

    Prophetic engagement: the Church’s calisthenics

    CBCPNews,

    Napoleon Bonaparte:“(Venomous tirade)…I shall crush the (Roman) Catholic Church…” Ercole Cardinal Consalvi (Pius VII’s Secretary of State): “If in 1,800 years we the clergy have failed to destroy the Church, do you really think that you’ll be able to do it?” Philippine President:(Extremely venomous tirade) “In 30 years the (Roman Catholic) Church will be passé especially when all the abuses of the clergy are exposed.” Some Catholic Bishops:“That is your wish. Hitler, for his part, also believing that the Church would eventually fall away, tried to hasten the process by campaigning against the existence and operation of seminaries, for instance, and sending to concentration camps and the gas chambers a number of clergymen and religious his regime saw as enemies. Yet, while both Bonaparte and Hitler are now in the dustbin of history, the current local leader continues to espouse their cause against a Living Reality that has survived Julius Caesar, Charlemagne, Henry VIII, Ferdinand Marcos, Stalin, Lenin & Marx, Mao Tse Tong, and many other more powerful hostile leaders.