“Better Together,” was the theme for this year’s Interfaith Youth Leadership Camp 2024. It was conducted from June 7-9, 2024. It gathered about 43 youths from the five…
Past Magazine Stories
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February 2025
The first super typhoon, Sendong (international name: Washi), tore over Cagayan de Oro (CDO), Iligan City, and certain areas of Lanao del Norte in December 2011. Houses…
February 2025
In a world often characterized by division and uncertainty, living the Catholic faith offers a profound sense of community, purpose, and belonging. It invites individuals…
February 2025
My sabbatical, October 2022 to September 2023, brought me to do the Ignatian Training Program (Phase 1), the Full Ignatian Spiritual Exercises and the Spiritual Directors…
February 2025
It’s been two years since we hosted the last Student Leadership Camp. In the last two years, many things have changed. Most parts of the world have already recovered from…
December 2024
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
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…
December 2024
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…
December 2024
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.…
December 2024
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…
December 2024
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…
December 2024
The Subanens are an indigenous people whose ancestral homeland is in the mountains of northwest Mindanao, Philippines. Like other indigenous peoples in the Philippines,…