FLOODS --- For the first time, almost one half of Metro Manila was submerged in water these last few days. EVERYTHING was paralyzed. No work, no banks, no stores, no shops, no transport -- everything at a standstill. Alarming because this is happening all over...
Sa usa ka bahin, makatawa ko, apan sa laing bahin, maglagot ko’g maminaw ug motan-aw sa mga hingtungdan nga nagsigi’g palusot, pamasangil, panabon ug pangambot, ug paghilom atubangan niining kasaysayan sa pangawkaw sa panudlanan sa gobiyerno. Ingon niini ang nagagawas karon sa atong atubangan. Sa iyang...
Last Monday, 19 August 2013 the Board of Directors of the Bishops-Ulama Conference met here in their office at the Karpentrade Building on McAthur Highway.. With the help of þhe former National Security Adviser they discussed the burning issues of the present situation with focus...
In one of my recent visits to our mission house in Davao City, there happened to be a gathering of young people. It was not the usual gathering of students and members of youth groups who would often visit our house for a group study...
The priest had wrapped the Blessed Sacrament with the benediction veil and clutched the covered sacred vessel close to his chest. He then proceeded towards the altar where he was going to place our Lord for the midnight vigil. At one moment, for about a...
AS we enter into the conclusion of the Year of Faith, it’s good to bring out to the fore again the primordial duty of the family, especially the parents, to help inculcate and spread the faith to the children and other people. We all know how...
Some may be inclined to ridicule Christians because of being in this or that denomination, whether Catholic or any other Christian denomination, whatever that be. Yet as the Latin proverb attests—contra factum non valet argumentum (translate as: you cannot argue against facts), which means...
On November 26, 2010, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI met members of the Italian Federation of Catholic weeklies representing 188 Catholic newspapers. He stressed three points. First: The Catholic Press has a very important role in forming a Christian conscience. Second, it must reflect clearly the...
Sa alas singko sa hapon, Agosto 9, malampuson nga napahigayon sa Davao Catholic Herald Social Media Ministry ang unang live streaming sa DCHerald. Kauban ang Director sa Social Communications and Mass Media Apostolate ug Editor-in-Chief sa Davao Catholic Herald nga si Fr. Ritsche Gamaya, malampuson nga...
His brother seminarians would say that he was incorrigible. His teachers thought likewise, in the same way that I did. He would remain in bed longer after the rising bell, be noisy in class, and do the same during the study period, when silence is...