The terrible calamities that killed thousands and injured many more while at the same time destroying the environment and buildings including churches often make people utter in pain and dismay. “Is this God’s will?”, “Doesn’t God love us?” or many expressions of similar tone.. For...
Former Chief Justice Renato Puno has suggested a legal way to abolish the infamous Presidential Development Assistant Fund (PDAF). According to him the present Philippine Constitution provides that a million signatures of a certain percent of registered voters can effect the abolition of the...
“Truth does not sell, news does”. This was the answer of Henry Booth Luce, former owner of the prestigious TIME magazine. All media institutions worldwide, except for the Vatican City daily Osservatorre Romano, exist for profit. News, especially the sensational ones that feed people’s curiosity,...
This will be a very short write-up on how media, local and international, have been reporting on what has been happening in Zamboanga. I'm just referring to the alleged perpetrator of the violence done there. The early media reports in both the local and international press...
In our previous Shalom column we asked the question, How then can religious faith and culture lived in communities help bring about fundamental change? More specifically, how can the many faith communities, which are culturally different in the teachings and practices of their respective...
I began encoding this column last Sunday evening, August 25. I finished it at the Davao International Airport the following morning of August 26, the beginning of the “Million People March to Luneta”. When through social media the urgent call to a massive demo against the...
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...
This topic is meant to provoke healthy speculations. Which is a mental exercise in truth-seeking. We are therefore requested not to jump into conclusions without actual knowledge of the truth supported by cold evidence. Our main purpose is to speculate on the bombings as political statement....
As a beginner in learning how to use the iPad and the blackberry mobile phone, I stumbled on news reports in English about the just-concluded World Youth Day in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Reading these reports makes me concerned about the possible misinterpretation and misuse...
In the religious tradition of the Orthodox Churches in Greece, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and West Asia 'icons' ( Greek word for images) were, and still are, an essential part of Christian life. They are visual representations of the mysteries of Faith and help...
