Some people enjoy looking at themselves as victims. These people consider themselves helpless, useless, and unlovable people who are always the innocent victims of unscrupulous and thoughtless fellow humans. They dig for sympathy, and they consider the pity of others…
The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines is 50 years old this year. I once asked a friend of mine what she thought of the Philippine bishops. There was some silence for a while. Then she hesitatingly answered that she…
Have you ever looked up at the sky on a clear night? Is it not so magical to watch the sky studded with stars? Have you ever wondered how a star is born? My limited knowledge of the subject tells…
The Pope is fifty years old as a priest. I am writing this column from Rome where Cardinal Sin and I are attending the festivities, marking that jubilee in his priesthood. When he was elected Pope in 1979, as soon…