Category Archives: Opinion

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...

(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...

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...

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...