My friend Cheryl invited me to celebrate the funeral mass of her high school classmate from St. Theresa’s College. It was difficult to refuse

              199 years ago on August 16, a poor boy was born in a small town in Becchi near Turin, Italy. His name was John

The headlines of these past weeks were disheartening. Most of the news reported were about death or destruction: a patient shoots his doctor then himself;

        The World Cup fever is on! Perhaps not so much in the Philippines being a “basketball country.”  Yet the world’s most popular sport is

        The canonization of our newest saints in the Church, John XXIII and John Paul II, gives me great joy. Both popes inspire me. Moreover,

April 27 is an exceptionally event-filled Sunday in the calendar! There is the exciting football match between the Philippine Azkals and their Southeast Asian rival

       Last Christmas, I received something small simply wrapped in a manila paper. It was so small it could fit in the palm of my

Pope Francis, during a mass in celebration of the Baptism of Jesus, baptized 32 babies in the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel last January. It caused a