Lawyers and ethics
MY father was a lawyer, and as early as when I was in Grade 5 or 6, I already started helping around in his office which actually was in our house also. That’s when I discovered I...
Category Archives: Opinion
National Laity Week 2013: Proclaim the Gospel through Faithful Witnessing
Catholic lay people have the mission to transform the world by living their faith in order to build the Church. By faith, Catholic lay people across the centuries have “professed the beauty of following the Lord Jesus wherever they were called to bear witness...
Ikaulaw man,apan maoy tinuod
Posted on September 25, 2013
in Nagkahiusa sa Misyon, Opinion
by Bishop Guillermo Afable, DD
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Samtang padayon pa ang pagatubang sa peligro sa kalamidad tungod sa sunod-sunod nga bagyo nga moagi sa Pilipinas, sa makausa pa, ang atong nasud nagaatubang og krisis sa kalinaw ug kahusay. Una, ang nabutyag nga hilabihang dako nga pagpangawkaw binuhatan sa mga tawong piniyelan,...
JESUS I TRUST IN YOU
In 1998, sa SONA ni Erap, “pork barrel, should be abolished>” (PDI 8/24/13, A 17). Wala ma-abolish ang pork panahon ni Erap ug wa pod maabolish ni GMA nga mipuli pagka- Presidente sulod sa 9 ka tuig. Ang report sa COA mahitungod sa anomalia, 3...
Renouncing self to follow Jesus
The spirit of sacrifice is behind many successes in life. We ought to learn to give up some things for the sake of gaining something of greater value, especially in the after life, after all this life is but temporary and there still is...
LESSONS FROM ZAMBOANGA SEIGE
I am writing this article earlier this week but by the time this will come out in print on Sunday, I do hope that the Zamboanga incident is...
CONSUMER PROTECTION
The citizen’s protection as a consumer of goods reaches into many different areas. These include: Methods of presentation of goods, among them advertising Packaging and labeling of goods Methods used in selling the goods Sales on credit Protection of consumer defenses Many more such area might be listed. Each can be...
A Call to Collective Action
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...
Old Law, New Law
THE Catechism of the Catholic Church has a section that talks about the Old Law and the New Law. It’s an interesting section that, to me, deserves to be known by everyone. For sure, that section, which is located in the division about Christian morality,...
THE TRIUMPHANT CROSS
Catholics make the sign of the Cross, a gesture that means so much – security, sacrifice and salvation. Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI says, “by signing ourselves with the cross, we place ourselves under the protection of the Cross, hold it in front of us like a...