Fr Jose Laboy
The famous orator, Cicero, once wrote, “Not to know what occurred before you were born is to always remain a child.” Part of maturing and having a strong identity is to know where you come from, your culture, your values. No one starts from scratch.
This quote from Cicero can be applied to Catholics regarding their faith.
If you want all your sins forgiven, then, Yes, you really do need to confess all your motral sins. And it’s worth it too.
Here’s why:
When it comes to forgiveness there is nothing like confession. More…
Fr Jose LaBoy
Recently the Administrative Committee of the USCCB released a Statement in which they express several important aspects behind the HHS mandate.
There seemingly has been some debate whether the mandate is about contraception or about Religious Freedom. Recent articles have been emphasizing one or the other. In reality both have to be taken into account but not in the same way.
The emphasis on it being an issue of religious freedom can make it seem that the evil of contraception is just a religious belief, More…
“When a culture attempts to suppress the dimension of ultimate mystery, and to close the doors to transcendent truth, it inevitably becomes impoverished and falls prey, as the late John Paul II so clearly saw, to reductionist and totalitarian readings of the human person and the nature of society.” – Pope Benedict XVI
In his recent address to the bishops of the United States of America on their “Ad Limina” visit, His Holiness, Benedict XIV observed that: More…
The famous orator, Cicero, once said that “to not know what occurred before you were born is to always remain a child.” Part of maturing and having a strong identity is to know where you come from, your culture, your values. No one starts from scratch.
This quote from Cicero can be applied to Catholics regarding their faith. More…
Answer #1: In order to save us and reconcile us with God.
The Church teaches—and our own experience confirms it—that we live in a world of sin. We need look no further than the chaos of the last century or the heaviness in our own hearts to see sin’s effects.
Yet, as hard as it is for us to imagine, More…
Finding the Right Door
Have you ever experienced the following: you are at someone’s house for the first time and you need to use the restroom. You ask where it is and they tell you, “down the hall to the left.” You go down the hall and you find two doors. You open the first one and you say to yourself, “Oh, oh, wrong door!” Lesson? To get to the right room you have to open the right door.
Pope Benedict in his Apostolic Letter proclaiming a “Year of Faith” More…
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