During my time as a Columban missionary priest I have spent Christmas in many different places including the Philippines, China, Ireland and of course here in the United…
December 2024
December 2024
Every December 1, World AIDS Day is observed globally. Some might wonder why, despite over 40 years since the first reported AIDS cases and significant progress in medical…
Christmas is to celebrate the birth of Jesus of Nazareth, the greatest man who ever lived, the one man that gives meaning and purpose and values to a more and more secular…
Christmas night in 1983, Father Leo and I trudged up the long street bringing us up to our house in a working-class neighborhood of the capital city of Chile, Santiago.…
Families develop their own unique ways to celebrate Christmas. Many have vivid memories of Christmas family rituals. The warmth and joy may even acquire an extra glow over…
Every year the Subanen crafters and their families hold our annual Christmas reunion. The occasion has its usual games and food. We crown a queen after a competition where…
The Subanens are an indigenous people whose ancestral homeland is in the mountains of northwest Mindanao, Philippines. Like other indigenous peoples in the Philippines,…
Here in Hong Kong, during the final week of Advent, so much of my time and attention is divided between two things: preparing for the Christmas Mass and planning hiking…
Christmas is really the time to celebrate children’s rights and to renew our commitment and determination to continue taking a stand for them, protecting, rescuing and…
I like Christmas lights. In many suburbs of Australia where I live there are marvelous displays of Christmas lights. In the northern hemisphere I enjoyed the lights with…
As a child growing up in Nebraska, Christmas was always a Winter Wonderland of cold and snow. This was further emphasized through the television Christmas specials such as…
A bomb went off during the celebration of Mass on the first Sunday of Advent last year in Marawi in the Philippines. Three people were killed and a number of others…
It was the second week of December! That especially busy season before Christmas was upon me. Besides that, the winter heavy grey skies were getting to me. I first came to…