Las Posadas, “the inns,” is a reenactment of the Holy Family’s search for lodging in Bethlehem before the birth of Christ.

This Christmas, please help me remember a few simple things.

Simbang Gabi speaks to the central place that Christmas holds in the Filipino imagination.

It is always a losing game to chase a simply stated lifestyle. Life is not simple. Life cannot be organized.

Thirty-four years ago I held my child, my 22-month-old son, cradling him in my arms as I watched the last flicker of his life ebb away.

After a visit to Christ in the Desert, I knew it was not the monks whose lifestyle I should question.