THROUGH UNTRUE Fr. Rolando V. dela Rosa, O.P. The pandemic has made the Internet an indispensable source of spiritual nourishment of believers. The sad thing is, although online worship cannot fully manifest the incarnational reality of the Mass and the sacraments, many Catholics have grown content...
THROUGH UNTRUE Fr. Rolando V. dela Rosa, O.P. For many people, nothing is more empowering than the sense of being a victim. They use victimhood as “the right disadvantage.” For instance a wife can have a wicked delight in being battered by her husband because she controls him through his guilt....
THROUGH UNTRUE Fr. Rolando V. dela Rosa, O.P. Last March, the World Happiness Report of 2020 ranked 156 countries according to how happy their citizens are. For three years now, Finland has been consistently at the top of the list because of its high GDP (Gross Domestic Product) per capita,...
THROUGH UNTRUE Fr. Rolando V. dela Rosa, O.P. According to the 2020 Forbes' list of world billionaires, Bill Gates is worth approximately $113 billion. But as early as 1999, his wealth was already unbelievable. In that year, Evan Marcus noted that Gates had $79.77 billion, and with that money, he...
THROUGH UNTRUE Fr. Rolando V. dela Rosa, O.P. "Who am I really?" is one question we must ask ourselves in this day and age when social networking is often driven not by our desire to socialize, but by our insatiable thirst for self-validation. Many of us are tempted to assume a false identity and...
THROUGH UNTRUE A group of ancient Greek philosophers, the Stoics, believed that the ability to visualize the worst possible thing that can happen helps a personto avoid or prevent it. Trouble is, the COVID-19 pandemic has developed in many of us the uncanny ability to imagine the worst-case...
THROUGH UNTRUE Fr. Rolando V. dela Rosa, O.P. The result of a recent study conducted in Spain and published in the Science Advances journal reveals that the envious personality is the most common personality type among people of our time.That should not surprise us. Envy has been a virtual mainstay...
