Category: Opinion-Editorial
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Who is My mother?
A pious tradition holds that as a child Mary was presented and educated near the Jerusalem Temple. This apocryphal story can serve to remind us of how Mary is honored and called blessed in the Church.
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2 promising vaccines against COVID-19
Of ten COVID-19 candidate vaccines in their final human trials, two reported highly promising initial results of their final Phase 3 human trials early this month.
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Drive out those… selling things
Pope Francis comments on Jesus’ cleansing of the temple in Jerusalem, which he does “with whip in hand.” Jesus drives out “pagan ways, in this case the behavior of the traders who were buying and selling.” He declares, “It is written: my house shall be called a house of prayer” and “not anything else.” “The temple is a holy place. And we should enter into its holiness to worship; not for anything else.”
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Reforestation — long-range answer to massive flooding
The immediate need in Luzon is for continued rescue and relief work for the people who lost their homes in the wake of typhoon Ulysses, the latest of a series of storms and typhoons that swept in from the Pacific in a span of three weeks.