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We often read on newspapers and hear on televisions the word “justice” especially when topic evolves around crimes and legal situations. Every time a victim is featured or family members interviewed on TV about the crimes committed against them, the...

St. John of Avila will not be the lone saint to be named as Doctor of the Church this year. Apparently another saint (Blessed to be exact) will be included in the Catholic Church’s elite lists of academics and scholars,...

This should serve as an inspiration for our young people on how God can use the new media in spreading the good news in cyberspace. An agricultural engineer from Ecuador recently joined a group of contemplative nuns in Spain after...

A Catholic religious priest of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart in Spain has been suspended “a divinis” from his priestly duties after defying the orders of his religious superior to discontinue appearing on the franchise of the reality show...

August 19, 2011 – Pilgrims from all over flock to Plaza de Cibeles and Plaza de Colon to join hundreds of thousands or perhaps even millions of pilgrims, young and old alike, for the culmination of today’s event through the...

The New Evangelization for the 21st century which the Pope is pushing for has its new face in the person of Saint John Avila, the newest and most recent addition to the 33 Doctors of the Church. Last year during...

August 19, 2011 – Madrid hosted a Stations of the Cross that offers a sampling of the typical Spanish Holy Week. The celebration showed different scenes that can usually only be found in the streets of Spain during Holy Week....

August 19, 2011 – After the lunch with the young people and meeting with Spain’s Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, the Pope rested a bit and then in the afternoon went to Plaza de Cibeles to lead the young...

An overwhelming vote from OTWOMD readers resounded their call for nuns to bring back the tradition of wearing their religious habits. A religious habit is a distinctive set of garments worn by members of a religious order (uniform in common...

The mistress of a controversial Congressman in the Philippines, Representative Iggy Arroyo, brother of the equally controversial first Gentleman Mike Arroyo, who died in London this week from Cardiac arrest, might be charged for misrepresenting the legal wife when she...

This Sunday, January 29, 2012 is the 4th Sunday in Ordinary time and our Gospel is taken from the Gospel of Mark. In the said Gospel, Jesus spoke with Authority when he entered the synagogue and drove out an unclean...

A decade ago, a friend of mine from the seminary gave me this beautiful pendant. At the back of the pendant was a piece of fabric. My friend told me to keep the pendant and venerate it as it contains...

Pope Benedict XVI offered reflections found in the Message for the 46th World Day of Social Communications, signed by Benedict XVI and published on the liturgical memorial of St. Francis de Sales, patron of journalists and communicators. The theme of...

Usually, the battle for hosting the succeeding World Youth Days happen under the radar, now it seems that the competition is getting stiffer and harder as news leak out that some countries are already lobbying to host the largest Catholic...

A few years ago, I saw this movie starring Antonio Banderas about a Vatican envoy Jesuit Priest who was sent to an archaeological site which contained a body that was suspected to have died by crucifixion. In short the premise...

On January 20, 2012 in the Clementine Hall, the Holy Father received seventy professors and students of the diocesan seminary of Rome, the “Almo Collegio Capranica”. Tomorrow the 555 year-old college will be celebrating the feast of its patroness St...

It is an unwritten international law and universal ethics in the medical and allied medicine profession that no one can force any health care worker to do a medical or health care procedure against his or her belief and religion....

After the sinking of the Costa Concordia luxury liner, criticisms hounded the ship’s crew on allegations of negligence among the passengers. This unfounded accusation was denied by the ship’s crew whose majority are Filipino Catholics and who just arived in...