Floods in the Caribbean and Mexico

Please offer your prayers and sacrifices for the victims of Tropical Storm Noel in the Dominican Republic and Haiti as well as those displaced due to the devastating floods in the state of Tabasco, Mexico. The floods in Tabasco are being compared to those caused by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and the worst [...]

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The Need for Awareness

In case you haven’t noticed, I have included “awareness” as one of the many ways in which we can build a “civilization of love.” What do I mean by “awareness”?
Well, I had not appreciated this point until recently. I am myself an immigrant and you would think that I should have known better when I [...]

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A lesson of patience and humility

I went to the Dominican Republic recently for business and I have to say that the Dominicans gave me a great lesson: one of patience and simplicity.
Merengue, a fun Latin music to dance to, runs in the veins of the Dominicans. They have produced most of the best musicians out there in this genre: Wilfrido [...]

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Rain and the Christian Paradox

I used to like it when it rained. Curling up on a comfortable chair and drinking hot tea or hot chocolate by the window while it rained outside. Perhaps even reading a good book. It used to be so enjoyable when it rained. But then I remembered a song that my [...]

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Gaudium et spes on respect for human dignity

Wishing to come down to topics that are practical and of some urgency, the Council lays stress on respect for the human person: everyone should look upon his neighbor (without any exception) as another self, bearing in mind above all his life and the means necessary for living it in a dignified way lest he [...]

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Hurricane Felix and the Miskito Indians

Let us pray for all those who are being affected by the landfall of category 5 Hurricane Felix, especially for the thousands of Miskito Indians stranded along the coast of Nicaragua and Honduras.
In 1998, Hurricane Mitch, which followed a similar path as Felix, killed nearly 11,000 people and left 8,000 people missing in Honduras and Nicaragua.

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You notice them, but do you really see them?

(This post was originally written by my boyfriend, Michael Joseph, at our former blog)
You’ve noticed him, but do you really see him? That is, do you see a person? The homeless, the hungry and the forsaken are all around us. Jesus promised us that, but he did not choose it to be so: “The poor [...]

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In Search of the Simple Life

(I originally wrote this in Evangelical Catholicism, but I will continue these series on this blog) 
I graduated Summa Cum Laude from College three years ago. I had a job lined up with one of the top ten Fortune 500 companies a semester before graduation. With relatively low experience in my field, my salary was still higher than [...]

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“We Must Use Our Eyes!”

“We Must Use Our Eyes!” is the name of one of the chapters in Joseph Ratzinger’s book Christianity and the Crisis of Cultures. This chapter follows his discussion of the right to life and abortion. He starts the chapter by saying:
The moral drama, the decision for good or evil, begins with our eyes, when we [...]

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