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'I am writing this not to pass judgment on Pura Luka Vega’s performance, but to open our minds to a Catholic perspective that goes beyond black and white, good or bad, blasphemous or not.' RapplerBlogs
with Catholic beliefs, for example, to the dismay of bishops and priests. In Filipino-Chinese communities, many Catholics put the Santo Niño side-by-side with Buddha for good luck. Every believer has the right to express faith in his or her own way.Which brings me to my second point: We should disabuse ourselves of the notion that God can be found only in church buildings. From a Catholic perspective, God became man – Jesus of Nazareth – and entered all dimensions of human existence.
My third point is closely related to the second: Why do we associate the sacred only with the serious? Humor can be holy. As a Catholic, I refuse to believe in a God who became “fully human” but never laughed and just looked like a church statue all the time. Faith involves a lot of imagination, and I always love to imagine Jesus smiling.
Founded by the former soldier Ignatius of Loyola , the Jesuits emphasize that God can be found even in the mundane aspects of human existence – eating at a restaurant, watching movies, sweeping the floor, or playing one’s favorite sport. This is why we have Jesuits from Ateneo de Manila like Joaquin Bernas, the constitutionalist; Bienvenido Nebres, the mathematician; and Jett Villarin, the astrophysicist. Pope Francis himself is a chemist.
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