Praying to Saints?
Why do we Catholics ask the Saints in Heaven to pray for us? Is there any basis for that in the Bible? Let’s take a look. Should members of the Body of Christ pray for each other? Our non-Catholic friends…
Mary, the new Ark of the Covenant
We celebrate the Solemnity of Mary the Mother of God throughout the Latin rite today, at least in the Ordinary form of the liturgy. In honor of Mary, the Θεοτόκος, the “theotokos” or “God bearer”, I’d like to present a short…
The Oak Tree
There’s a great temptation to think that the goal of any and all true renewal in the Church should be to return to the exact life and practice of the early Church. Even movements within the Catholic Church have…
Are married priests on the way?
From: By: Sandro Magister ROME, September 21, 2016 – Pope Francis received in audience a few days ago the Brazilian cardinal Cláudio Hummes, accompanied by the archbishop of Natal, Jaime Vieira Rocha. Hummes, 82, former archbishop of São Paulo and…
Trials and Tribulations
If God is good, why does He allow us to suffer trials and tribulations? This question ceased to be just an interesting intellectual puzzle for me after the tragic death of my son a few years ago. In the aftermath…
Book Review: Short Stories by Jesus, The Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial Rabbi
Short Stories by Jesus, The Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial Rabbi, by Amy-Jill Levine, HarperCollins, New York, 2014, 313 pages. “Religion has been defined to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable. We do well to think of the…
Breaking the Fangs of the Wicked
I was a father to the needy; I took up the case of the stranger. I broke the fangs of the wicked and snatched the victims from their teeth. Job 29:16-17 Four decades ago, some men on Guam suffered terrible…
Former Guam resident accuses archbishop of raping him
Walter Denton, a former resident of Agat, Guam, and a former altar boy for Archbishop Anthony Apuron, has accused the Archbishop of raping him when he was 8 years old. Part I Part II (the testimony of his wife)