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Two Filipino Catholics are harnessing the power of social media to spread the Gospel. With their increasing number of followers these two evangelizers are showing the youth that the widespread platform of social media is the way to communicate and connect.
Social media today has become the new pulpit in spreading the Good News. The Church urges her faithful to use it as an effective tool to promote what is praiseworthy and good in people. Communicator Ilsa Reyes suggests themes and ideas on how to intensify Catholic evangelization online.
Philippine migration has both its positive and negative aspects. A balance of the benefits and costs of migration remains a challenge for Filipino migrants, their families, the government, the church and other stakeholders.
Fr. Gerald G. Metal considers himself a missionary in Jordan where he attends to the spiritual needs of the Filipino community. Christians are respected in this Muslim majority country in which Filipinos contribute to the increase of the churches’ attendance.
Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) take and practice their faith fervently wherever they go or are. That is why the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines appreciates the role of OFWs as modern-day apostles of evangelization in the foreign countries where they work.
We often think of holiness as something that is only available to some who, by their vocation, are “predestined” to a path of holiness. On the contrary, holiness is a free gift to all. In this way, it becomes the mission and responsibility of each one.
In the Year of the Youth, we hear how some young people endeavor to live the ideal of holiness. Even though beset by numerous challenges, the youth can aspire to be holy by relying on God’s grace and looking at the lives of the saints.
Pope Francis, through his 2018 apostolic exhortation Rejoice and Be Glad (Gaudete et Exsultate) [GE], has sparked a renewed interest in holiness. This inviting document bears the subtitle: “On the Call to Holiness in Today’s World,” and it echoes the identical invitation found in Vatican II’s Lumen Gentium (#39-42): “The Universal Call to Holiness in the Church.”
For centuries, Catholics in China have been dogged by disputes with Confucian rites and Communist beliefs, as well as issues of infighting, imperial opposition and politics.
French Jesuit Benôit Vermander, teacher in Shanghai and one of the most important scholars on China, maintains that the newly-signed agreement between Beijing and the Vatican can indicate a mitigation of the strict policies imposed by the Chinese Government.
