“The decrease in family values and prayers is leading the young people towards earthly career development and away from priesthood and religious life,” Celso Fernandes says.
For Fr. Edgar G. Javier, SVD, mission was not simply something he studied, taught or preached. It was the way he lived.
“Life is mission. Mission is life.”
Last year, our family visited Hiroshima and felt the weight of history settle quietly in my heart. This year, we returned to Japan and traveled to Nagasaki, carrying the same reverence but also a new hope, the hope that comes from witnessing not only suffering, but also a faith that refused to break.
St. Paul seems to have understood the nature of addiction. “I do not understand what I do. For I do not do what I want to do, but I do what I don’t want to do” (Romans 7:15).
Saint Augustine famously wrote that our hearts are restless until they rest in God. Keenu’s restlessness gives that truth a human face. Sargodha is more than a location. Afsana is more than a memory. They represent that place inside us where love once said, “This is home.”
Our Lady of Sorrows stands at the foot of a cross the world had already judged a failure. And yet this is the same woman who once sang that the proud would be scattered and the lowly lifted up. The Magnificat and the sorrow are not two different Marys.
India observes Teachers’ Day on Sept. 5, commemorating the birth anniversary of Dr. S. Radhakrishnan, philosopher, teacher and former president of India. While the day recognizes the contribution of educators, Catholic teachers see their work as extending beyond academic instruction to the formation of character, relationships and responsible citizens.
There was something strangely sad about seeing Spider-Man swinging beautifully through New York while Peter Parker has nobody waiting for him when he gets home.
The newly established Diocese of Calapan is beginning its life as a diocese with a decades-old legacy of priestly formation rooted in three institutions that have accompanied the Catholic Church in Mindoro: St. Augustine Seminary, St. Augustine Major Seminary and St. Augustine House of Spirituality.
When four young Italian missionaries arrived in Bombay, now Mumbai, on Aug. 18, 1951, they could hardly have imagined that their small community would one day grow into one of India's leading Catholic publishing and evangelization ministries.
God warned Cain, “Sin is lurking at the door.” (Gen 4 : 7) Cain didn’t bother and opened the door. He ends up as the perpetrator of the first fratricide in biblical history. While he is cursed by God, it is evil that triumphs and cackles with glee.
Odysseus’ journey functions in much the same way. Like Israel, he has been delivered from an enemy but remains imprisoned by distrust, pride and fear. He condemns the gods while lamenting the consequences of his own choices.
The ninth of August 2026 spells “Courage.” It was on this day in 1942 that the Quit India Movement went into action and thousands of freedom fighters who were on the streets were arrested.
It is easy to see what we can learn from Sonam Wangchuk: empathy that made him spontaneously support the students and his moral courage that made him risk his life for a worthy cause
The 12th Plenary Assembly of the Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences (FABC) concluded in Jakarta with a renewed call for the Catholic Church in Asia to embrace synodality as a way of being Church, strengthening collaboration, dialogue, and missionary commitment across the continent.
Cardinal Filipe Neri Ferrão, president of the Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences (FABC), expressed heartfelt gratitude to Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle for leading the Day of Prayer and Recollection during the 12th FABC Plenary Assembly on July 22.
From a Catholic lens, Twinless feels almost sacramental in places. Ordinary moments, sharing food, walking together, sitting in silence, become signs of deeper grace. Not magic solutions, but small revelations.
Asia is a continent that has an immense wealth of diversity; this is so evident by its numerous languages, cultures, customs and traditions. All the major religions of the world have millions of adherents living here. There is a whole range of variety in the food people eat and in the dress they wear. There are significant differences in the intellectual prowess and behavioural patterns. Pluralism is a reality in most places and needs to be celebrated.
