TOTUS TUUS APOSTOLATE

Many provide the argument that it is simply ‘beautiful’, but it’s not a good enough reason, because this is a subjective opinion. Here are a few solid and practical reasons why.

Newman’s love for the Divine Office illumined his path towards the Catholic Church. After his conversion, he also had a particular devotion to the Blessed Sacrament and found in the presence of Christ in the tabernacle great strength and comfort.

Theologians have developed all kinds of theology. A Theology of the Body. Because all human beings need to know what it means to be a man or woman. A Theology of Suffering. Because everybody suffers and would appreciate wisdom in that regard. How about a Theology of Failure?

One of the great lessons in the Theology of the Body of St John Paul II is that the opposite of love is not so much to hate, but to use. In the pope’s philosophy of Personalism, human beings are persons only to be loved and never used. To use someone would mean to instrumentalise, manipulate, or utilise another (or his body) for one’s own advantage, gain, purpose or pleasure.

One of the reasons the latest batch of Star Wars films have not been well received is because the writers have twisted the classic hero character in two specific ways. Building on the Star Wars mythology—with some borrowing from the Bible—what can we learn about becoming a Catholic Hero?

By the time I reached Santiago de Compostela, I knew that the true destination was never the cathedral, but the transformation that had quietly taken root along the way. I began to hear the sacred notes in the world around me - in creation, in the kindness of others, and in the silence that no longer frightened me.

The Catholic faith is one of the most known but least understood of various faiths, not just among people of other religions but also among other Christians. She has always considered it a duty of the highest rank to seek full unity with estranged communions of fellow Christians, and at the same time to reject any promiscuous and false union that would mean being unfaithful to or glossing over the teaching of Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition.

Forgiveness is one of the most misunderstood virtues—often mistaken for toxic positivity or passivity. Phrases like “forgive and forget” can dismiss real pain, while cancel culture swings to the opposite extreme, writing people off without context and stifling empathy. A conscious, regular decision to relinquish the impulse to hate and retaliate, and to pursue personal peace instead.

For many, it is a form of being courteous to one another and an expression of appreciation. Nothing appears inherently wrong. However, we need to view this through a liturgical lens, and not from a worldly context. 

A brief introduction to academic New Testament studies will be a somewhat shocking eye opener go most beginners. They will soon find that most “respectable” New Testament scholars have made an career out of de-bunking the gospels and trying to show them to be late compositions written by anonymous authors who added mythological magical details to the story of Jesus  to make him sound more like the Son of God.

Mother Mary spent forty days at home (or rather, in the stable at Bethlehem) after Jesus’ birth, before returning to public life and worship with the presentation of Our Lord in the Temple (Luke 2:22).

The Church is born primarily of Christ’s total self-giving for our salvation, anticipated in the institution of the Eucharist and fulfilled on the cross. “The origin and growth of the Church are symbolized by the blood and water which flowed from the open side of the crucified Jesus.” “For it was from the side of Christ as he slept the sleep of death upon the cross that there came forth the ‘wondrous sacrament of the whole Church.’”

The outcome of the conclave on 16 October 1978 came as such a surprise around the world that newspapers in New York could not get a picture of the Cardinal Wojtyla, Archbishop of Krakow. Despite the difficulties, the article on the newly elected Holy Father had to be published, especially when there was a huge interest and what is an article without the likeness of the main character!

I was piqued to see my own bishop, Cardinal Goh, appear on EWTN. As he spoke with Matthew Bunson, Vice President of EWTN, I felt a profound sense of relief — as though a weight had been lifted from my shoulders.