UNESCO or United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization has encouraged mother tongue instruction in primary education since 1953 and UNESCO highlights the advantages of mother tongue education right from the start. Children are more likely to enroll and succeed in school and parents are...
THAT gospel episode about a Canaanite woman practically pestering Christ to cure her daughter who was tormented by a demon (cfr. Mt 15,21-28) gives us a precious lesson about what to do when we are faced with a severe test of faith where God may...
THAT part of the gospel where Christ was asked about marriage and divorce and that also talked a little about man being created man and woman (cfr. Mt 19,3-12) gives us an occasion to clarify certain points that have become today’s hot button issues due...
THAT’S the usual line many people use when they want to justify their reaction and even their attitude and behavior of anger, if not of hatred or despair, toward a certain person or event. They usually say that they were mistreated, misunderstood or prejudged, etc., and...
THE gospel reading of Wednesday of the 19th Week in Ordinary Time, which falls this year 2023 on August 16, talks about the Christian duty of making fraternal corrections as a true expression of fraternal love among ourselves. It also talks about the Christ-given power...
THE Solemnity of the Assumption of Our Lady, celebrated on August 15, definitely reminds us that our body also shares in the dignity of being image and likeness of God. This is what our Catechism teaches about the basic truth of faith about ourselves: “The human...
IT’S a skill and art that we need to develop. We cannot deny that we have different aspects of our life that can be competing and conflicting, and we should just learn how to blend them as best that we could into some meaningful unity...
Q. Any chance of a clearer mining policy? A. House Bill No 3763 filed on December 1, 2010 want to regulate rationally the exploring and use of minerals. Malacañang wants to get more mining royalties. The Problem is in existing mining agreements the royalty is only...
(Homily of Most Rev. Romulo G. Valles, D.D., Archbishop of Davao during the 74th Parochial Fiesta of Sta. Ana Shrine Parish, July 26, 2023) “O Lord, God of our fathers, who bestowed, on Sts. Anne and Joachim this grace, that on them should be born the...
The Dogma of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (BVM), defined by Venerable Pope Pius XII on November 1, 1950 in his apostolic constitution Munificentissimus Deus (Most Bountiful God), is the belief that Our Lady was taken up – body and soul – into...