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November 2025
These celebrations-All Saints and All Souls-really highlight the Christian belief in the Communion of Saints, which shows the spiritual connection between the Church in heaven, the Church on earth, and the souls in purgatory.
Merit and demerit, sin, confession, and forgiveness for the person are possible only in life. In death the possibility of merit and demerit for the person concerned ceases, and therefore our Christian practice of praying for the dead.
Everlasting life remains a mystery to us while we are here on earth. Most of us aim for heaven and hope to avoid hell, but rarely do we think about that other option: purgatory. What do Catholics believe about purgatory? Here is an answer.
Every last day of October, children are seen around roaming the streets and holding a basket of pumpkins, and yet, for Catholics, they have a different way of celebrating Halloween. Here’s a list of things you need to know about the Catholic’s feast.
The Catholic Church’s newest saints, Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati, were deeply committed to protecting human life, promoting social justice and peace, and caring for creation.
The Philippines is a nation full of kind, generous, resilient and long-suffering people who, for centuries, have been misled by and burdened with the corruption and injustice committed by dynastic families. The Spanish colonizers brought with them a version of “Christianity” that fell far short of what Jesus of Nazareth wanted his followers to believe in.
A member of the Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (ICM), Sr. Eleanor Llanes, a devoted nun to pastoral care, works with women and youth who engage in promoting justice and the integrity of creation in the global trend.
The nihilism and moral relativism that blossomed in the twentieth century eroded the common standards that hold communities together. As values slowly lost their worth, a vacuum was created that’s now filled with opportunism and violence, making the Gospel’s call to be more urgent.
Pope Leo XIV has publicly called for “new and concrete forms for an ever more intense synodality.” While he preserves the institutional continuity of the Synod of Bishops, he seeks to enrich it with the fruits of recent synodal experiences and to extend it into local Churches.
The millennial generation is fortunate to have parents who read books to them before bedtime. Not all generations had the opportunity to experience that. Now, it has become more of a norm for parents to read stories to their children to help them sleep.
Three landmark texts of Vatican II–Optatam Totius, Presbyterorum Ordinis and Perfectae Caritatis encompass a bold vision of the Church’s life and mission. Together, they call priests and consecrated men and women to become living witnesses of Christ’s self–giving love.
The prophet Zephaniah speaks against foreign domination and moral collapse, warning of the coming Day of the Lord while calling the people back to justice, humility, and hope. His message offers a vision of a renewed community where the poor are defended and God rejoices over a faithful remnant.
The Comboni Mission Center (CMC) in Parañaque City continues to develop and enhance its missionary charism through collaborative efforts in assisting local parishes. Additionally, it organizes outreach programs to share blessings with those who are less fortunate.
To speak of Jubilee is to speak of love, but when it comes to “forgiving debts” we are referring to the most beautiful and refined love.
Pope Leo XIV has chosen “Preserving human voices and faces” as the theme for the 60th World Day of Social Communications, set to take place on 17 May 2026.
Our goal is to promote a national dialogue everywhere to find a way out of the conflict that has been going on for four years and is causing great suffering for the entire nation, for people’s livelihoods, for education, for the economy, and for the future of young people.
Pope Leo XIV aimed at the U.S. administration’s hardline immigration policies, questioning whether they were in line with the Church’s pro-life teachings.
I beg you to see Christ in every person, even those whose politics you oppose.
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