About 150 delegates from the Archdiocese of Davao joined the 15th PREX national convention held in Baguio City last February 1-3, 2019. The convention was attended by more than three thousand PREX members coming from Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. It was the biggest and most...
The heroism of the people of Metro Manila including that of the youth, during the February 21 to 25 1986 EDSA drama is slowly fading from memory. Very few can recall the name of the Cardinal who rallied the people to go to EDSA. Why EDSA?...
(Excerpt from the homily of Abp. Romulo G. Valles on the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord and World Day of Consecrated Life, February 2, 2019 @ San Pedro Cathedral) How do you and with you, we be, in the presence of lay faithful, become...
The Rotary Club of Fort Bonifacio Global City together with 30 other clubs around Rizal province have organized themselves and joined groups and institutions advocating for peace especially in Mindanao. This is something new and calls for rejoicing and celebrating. The group has identified several peace...
Last Valentine’s Day, February 14, 2019 is the 8th year of which I celebrated the said occasion without my better half. I become a widow when my husband passed away due to health reasons on September 7, 2011. This Valentines though I believed my husband serenaded...
FAMILIARITY is a common and usual danger to all of us. It is due to the limitations of our human condition that lead us to take many things, even the important ones, for granted. Instead of seeing God in everything and be amazed and excited about...
THESE two should go together. They are not meant to go separate ways and, worse, to go against each other. A faith without science is prone to fall into superstitions, and a science without faith can only go nowhere. Yes, a faith without science can only...
THE word, ‘narrative,’ today has acquired a bad connotation because it now is made to refer to attempts to conform our views according to a preconceived storyline that would already suggest bias and prejudice. It’s like things are scripted and controlled, and as a consequence...
[caption id="attachment_19960" align="alignright" width="350"] DCM Convention 2018 at Butuan[/caption]With Fr. Ricardo Banzon, Fr. Rogelio Antalan, Fr. Paul Cunanan all from Davao, among others as convenors, the first Diocesan Clergy of Mindanao (DCM) Convention was held in Davao on February 6, 1973. The 43rd Diocesan Clergy...
(Excerpt from the homily of Abp. Romulo G. Valles on the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord and World Day of Consecrated Life, February 2, 2019 @ San Pedro Cathedral) In 1997, the Holy Father that time, John Paul II, who is now a saint,...