The cross does not offer easy comfort. But it does offer company, the company of someone who looked at the full cost of love and chose it anyway, not in a single heroic moment, but across years of small, consistent, quietly radical choices.
During St. John Paul II's first pastoral visit to the country in 1981, the pope visited the RVA auditorium in Manila on February 21. Standing before microphones that carried broadcasts in numerous Asian languages, he addressed listeners across the continent.
As we near Holy Week, may we have the courage to confront our own temptations toward Pilate's delusion and the grace to choose, no matter the cost, the side of the condemned over the comfortable neutrality of the judge.
If he were alive today, he would have reiterated those words from his address to the UN General Assembly in 1965, "No more war, and war never again! Peace, it is peace which must guide the destinies of people and of all mankind."
On March 8, the world celebrates International Women’s Day, a moment to honor women’s achievements and renew the call for dignity, equality, and justice.
Pope Paul VI, remembered as the “Pilgrim Pope,” left an enduring legacy not only through his leadership of the Catholic Church during the transformative years of the Second Vatican Council but also through his deep commitment to the Church’s missionary outreach, especially to Asia.
Young Goan journalist Frazer Andrade from Fatorda, Goa, has a collection of more than 700 artifacts reflecting Goa’s Indo-Portuguese Christian heritage.
When the Earth Breathes does not shout ecological slogans. Instead, it whispers what Laudato Si' proclaims: creation is not raw material for our dreams, it is sacred gift.
Reconciliation lies at the center of this sacred season. It is not merely about confessing sins but about rediscovering God’s mercy and allowing it to transform our lives.
On March 8, the world celebrates International Women’s Day, a day that recognizes the achievements of women while also acknowledging the injustices they continue to endure. It is a day of gratitude, but also of reckoning.
For more than five decades, Radio Veritas Asia (RVA) has stood as the “Voice of Asian Christianity,” proclaiming the Gospel across cultures, languages, and borders.
Healing seminars and outreach activities organized by the Cebu-based lay charismatic community Oasis of Love have become part of the pastoral program for Filipino migrant workers in Hong Kong, according to the chaplain serving the community.
When Pope Paul VI stepped onto Asian soil in 1970, he was doing more than making a pastoral visit. He was signaling a shift in how the Catholic Church viewed its global mission.
