The rising full moon, glowing golden in the twilight, was accented by the fireworks shooting off across the lake. The children sat with full bellies crowded on the dock “oooing” and “ahhing” while the ...

THE coexistence of the “godly” and the “godless” of traditional piety and modern secularism has been a characteristic of Western civilization since the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The rise ...

Studying with Miss Bishop: Memoirs from a Young Writer’s Life, by Dana Gioia (Paul Dry Books: 2021), 184 pages. Born into a working-class family in L.A., Dana Gioia rose to become chairman of the ...

The sixth of the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit we receive in the sacrament of confirmation is piety. Piety is one of those “religious” words that people tend to tune out. Sometimes, we tune them out ...

Throughout the Noble Quran, Almighty Allah ordered us to be conscious and fearful of Him, for might and honour lie in fearing Him. Only the people of piety and righteousness are the people of joy and ...

More than a decade ago, during Holy Week, our car was caught in traffic in Pampanga that was caused by a group of male shirtless devotees walking barefoot and flagellating themselves. As they walked ...

Filial piety, rooted in Confucian ethics, remains a foundational principle shaping parent–child relations and youth development across East Asia. Contemporary research conceptualises filial piety ...