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. Nevertheless, it remains the case that forgiveness reaps extensive mental health benefits and fosters deep relationships. The way people exercise forgiveness and achieve personal closure varies (i.e., accidents), but the substance of it remains the same: A conscious, regular decision to relinquish the impulse to hate and retaliate, and to pursue personal peace instead.

Jesus Christ is the answer, but what is the question? Is it true? Why should I care? Keeping these three axioms in mind has been transformative in my own catechetical experience. And I would like to share how this impacted how I conducted the first session of the year titled “Introduction to Ordinary Time.”

The status of early Christians in the Roman Empire was precarious, and government officials often regarded them with suspicion, but actual persecution was local and sporadic before the middle of the third century. The brutal measures under the Emperors Decius in 250 and Valerius in 258 affected Christian communities throughout the Empire. But they were followed by peaceful growth until Diocletian’s Great Persecution.

The New Atheism often depicts God as a capricious tyrant, distorting the Gospel’s core message of love into one of fear and coercion. Such perspectives typically arise from a fragmented reading of the Bible, stripped of its historical depth, cultural context, and theological nuance. This treatise draws a parallel between God's authority and the character of the Emperor in Samurai Jack, using his story as an allegory to illustrate how even severe actions can be just and necessary when considered within the full context of the narrative; thus enabling us to rediscover the Sacred Heart of God beyond the caricatures imposed by bad religion, surface-level critiques and militant skepticism.

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.

The time has passed for Catholics from all walks of life to hide our ignorance behind the intellectual competence of the clergy by claiming that it is only the clergy who have access to a fuller knowledge of the Church’s body of teachings.