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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.
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.
Sr. Isabelle Kahambu Valinande, a Comboni missionary from the Democratic Republic of Congo, walks alongside migrants in San Antonio, Texas, offering her heart. She finds that the simple acts of listening, smiling, and praying can spark reconciliation.
Sister Patricia Lemus, a Comboni missionary, has been in Sri Lanka for more than five years and in the city of Hatton for just over a year. She shares the challenges of this mission on the Asian continent.
Fr. Raul Baluma Tabaranza, a priest for more than two decades, took a leap of faith on his mission in Zambia, Africa, as he encountered the drastic change of taking on multiple roles: as a priest, carpenter, doctor, and teacher, which all at once shaped his missionary life.
From the mountain villages and mourned loss in cities ravaged by war, Fr. Bonifacio Autentico Apaap Jr., a Filipino missionary, traveled across three nations-Eretria, Sudan and Egypt-for him to discover that mission is not about control or success–it is about faithfulness.
The economy has its importance; however, economic success cannot be the ultimate goal in human affairs. It cannot be allowed to entice and enslave human beings, erase cultures, and ruin the environment. The economy, on the contrary, must have a human face.
The bishops’ conferences and councils from Asia, Africa, and Latin America, with the Pontifical Commission for Latin America, have released a document calling for climate justice and ecological conversion ahead of the UN Climate Change conference, COP30, set to take place from November 10 to 21 in Belém, Brazil. Below is a summary.
The Philippines is the hardest-hit country in Asia by the frequency and greater intensity of typhoons indisputably caused by climate change. The World Meteorological Organization says climate disasters have become five times more intense in the archipelagic country in the past 50 years.
In the Bull of Indiction for the Jubilee of 2025, Pope Francis recalled the Canticle of the Poverello of Assisi, exhorting us “to have the simple eyes of St. Francis, who in his Canticle of Creatures, written 800 years ago, perceived creation as one big family and called the sun ‘brother’ and the moon ‘sister’.”
