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Our concept of Justice is very different from God’s Justice

Romuald Matthieson — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:18:50 +0000

We often read on newspapers and hear on televisions the word “justice” especially when topic evolves around crimes and legal situations. Every time a victim is featured or family members interviewed on TV about the crimes committed against them, the word “justice” pops up, seemingly attached automatically to the word “crime”. My concept of justice [...]

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Pope to hail German mystic as fourth woman Doctor of the Church

Romuald Matthieson — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:01:53 +0000

St. John of Avila will not be the lone saint to be named as Doctor of the Church this year. Apparently another saint (Blessed to be exact) will be included in the Catholic Church’s elite lists of academics and scholars, all for the name of Love and Glory of God. Right after I published yesterday [...]

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Young woman enters convent because of YouTube video

Romuald Matthieson — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:59:48 +0000

This should serve as an inspiration for our young people on how God can use the new media in spreading the good news in cyberspace. An agricultural engineer from Ecuador recently joined a group of contemplative nuns in Spain after learning about the order from a video posted on YouTube. Monica Pesantes is a now a [...]

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Catholic Priest suspended after joining reality show “Big Brother”

Romuald Matthieson — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:42:41 +0000

A Catholic religious priest of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart in Spain has been suspended “a divinis” from his priestly duties after defying the orders of his religious superior to discontinue appearing on the franchise of the reality show “Big Brother”. Fr. Antonio Molina Sanz was served with suspension coming directly from the Order [...]

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PHOTOS: WYD 2011 Day 4 Highlights – Behind the scenes photos

Romuald Matthieson — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:51:50 +0000

August 19, 2011 – Pilgrims from all over flock to Plaza de Cibeles and Plaza de Colon to join hundreds of thousands or perhaps even millions of pilgrims, young and old alike, for the culmination of today’s event through the traditional Stations of the Cross. People lined up on streets wherein steel grills and giant [...]

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Spanish Priest, St. John Avila is the newest Doctor of the Church

Romuald Matthieson — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:57:58 +0000

The New Evangelization for the 21st century which the Pope is pushing for has its new face in the person of Saint John Avila, the newest and most recent addition to the 33 Doctors of the Church. Last year during the meeting with Seminarians in Almudena Cathedral in Madrid for the World Youth Day 2011, [...]

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PHOTOS: WYD 2011 Day 4 Highlights – Via Crucis Statues

Romuald Matthieson — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:55:00 +0000

August 19, 2011 – Madrid hosted a Stations of the Cross that offers a sampling of the typical Spanish Holy Week. The celebration showed different scenes that can usually only be found in the streets of Spain during Holy Week. The event was attended by representatives from designated brotherhoods and religious associations. Fourteen pieces from [...]

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PHOTOS: WYD 2011 Day 4 Highlights – The Stations of the Cross

Romuald Matthieson — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:53:51 +0000

August 19, 2011 – After the lunch with the young people and meeting with Spain’s Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, the Pope rested a bit and then in the afternoon went to Plaza de Cibeles to lead the young people on the traditional stations of the cross. The Pope pass by the Paseo de [...]

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POLL SAYS: 81% of readers want nuns to wear their religious habits

Romuald Matthieson — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:45:53 +0000

An overwhelming vote from OTWOMD readers resounded their call for nuns to bring back the tradition of wearing their religious habits. A religious habit is a distinctive set of garments worn by members of a religious order (uniform in common language). The Poll was conducted from June 7, 2011 to July 7, 2011 within the [...]

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Arroyo mistress allegedly misrepresented legal wife in Euthanasia

Romuald Matthieson — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:25:24 +0000

The mistress of a controversial Congressman in the Philippines, Representative Iggy Arroyo, brother of the equally controversial first Gentleman Mike Arroyo, who died in London this week from Cardiac arrest, might be charged for misrepresenting the legal wife when she allowed the hospital to pull off the plug of the life support of the congressman [...]

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SUNDAY GOSPEL READINGS: January 29, 2012 – “Authority” – Mark 1:21-28 – Fourth (4th) Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year B

Romuald Matthieson — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:03:23 +0000

This Sunday, January 29, 2012 is the 4th Sunday in Ordinary time and our Gospel is taken from the Gospel of Mark. In the said Gospel, Jesus spoke with Authority when he entered the synagogue and drove out an unclean spirit from a man, to the skepticism of the Pharisees. The first reading meanwhile is [...]

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My search for the identity of the relic of an unknown saint…

Romuald Matthieson — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:26:49 +0000

A decade ago, a friend of mine from the seminary gave me this beautiful pendant. At the back of the pendant was a piece of fabric. My friend told me to keep the pendant and venerate it as it contains the relic of this particular blessed nun. Through the years, I kept the relic in [...]

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“Silence is another face of communication” – Pope Benedict XVI

Romuald Matthieson — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:24:21 +0000

Pope Benedict XVI offered reflections found in the Message for the 46th World Day of Social Communications, signed by Benedict XVI and published on the liturgical memorial of St. Francis de Sales, patron of journalists and communicators. The theme of the message is “Silence and Word: Path of Evangelization.” The Message was presented on January [...]

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Countries battle it out for World Youth Day 2015-2016

Romuald Matthieson — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:50:57 +0000

Usually, the battle for hosting the succeeding World Youth Days happen under the radar, now it seems that the competition is getting stiffer and harder as news leak out that some countries are already lobbying to host the largest Catholic gathering of youth in the world. It is actually interesting because the event is becoming [...]

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Is downloading or uploading copyrighted files a mortal sin?

Romuald Matthieson — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:05:21 +0000

A few years ago, I saw this movie starring Antonio Banderas about a Vatican envoy Jesuit Priest who was sent to an archaeological site which contained a body that was suspected to have died by crucifixion. In short the premise of the movie is whether the body found in the digging site was Jesus’ or [...]

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Priestly life requires ever-increasing thirst for sanctity – Pope

Romuald Matthieson — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 11:53:29 +0000

On January 20, 2012 in the Clementine Hall, the Holy Father received seventy professors and students of the diocesan seminary of Rome, the “Almo Collegio Capranica”. Tomorrow the 555 year-old college will be celebrating the feast of its patroness St Agnes, and it was on that third-century virgin and martyr that the Holy Father focused [...]

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Two Scottish midwives stand in court against abortion

Romuald Matthieson — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 09:38:38 +0000

It is an unwritten international law and universal ethics in the medical and allied medicine profession that no one can force any health care worker to do a medical or health care procedure against his or her belief and religion. I have never heard of any institution who violated this common rule on bioethics until [...]

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Chaplain of the sunken Costa Concordia defends the ship’s crew

Romuald Matthieson — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 09:06:00 +0000

After the sinking of the Costa Concordia luxury liner, criticisms hounded the ship’s crew on allegations of negligence among the passengers. This unfounded accusation was denied by the ship’s crew whose majority are Filipino Catholics and who just arived in the Philippines to tell their own side of the story. According to an interview with [...]

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SUNDAY GOSPEL READINGS: January 22, 2012 – “Fishers of Men” – Mark 1:14-20 – Third (3rd) Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year B

Romuald Matthieson — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:54:07 +0000

The First reading shows the infinite mercy of God towards the sinners when Nineveh, who was scheduled to be destroyed by the Lord within 40 days, took upon themselves repentance and sacrifice after hearing from prophet Jonah, the Lord’s message. It shows that God is very much forgiving and merciful to those who are sincere [...]

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PROFILES: Bishop Michael Kennedy D.D., Bishop of Armidale

Romuald Matthieson — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 06:13:36 +0000

I am very fortunate to have personally met Bishop Michael Kennedy a few months ago. He was not yet Bishop then but was still a humble Parish priest in Leeton, New South Wales. Me and my Friend went to Leeton to have lunch with him together with another Parish priest and a seminarian. I had [...]

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