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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.
