The public is misled! We are misled by the media line that the Reproductive Health Law (RA 10354) is declared constitutional and the Church’s anti-RH campaign lost. Many may not realize this but the Supreme Court in “approving” the RH law actually GAVE DUE COURSE to...
1. The first question is, why is there a proliferation of arms and ammunitions. bombs and land mines in Mindanao? This is not about the provision on Demobilization in the Signed Agreement; it’s not only about gun running and arms smuggling either, which is common knowledge. It...
Sa adlaw sa lubong ni Pope John Paul II niadtong tuig 2005, nakita sa tibuok kalibutan ang dakong banner didto sa Roma nga nag-ingon SANTO SUBITO, sa ato pa, himoon unta dayon siyang Santo. Usa sa pinakapaspas nga pagproseso sa pagkasanto, human lamang sa siyam ka...
People would think that only a life exposed to worldliness is full of events that can thrill the heart or mind of man. But nothing may be further from the truth. The lives of the Saints were presumably full of God-inspired thrills and happiness even...
One activity that can cause family bonding or deepening of friendships is doing a pilgrimage. May is Mama Mary’s month and we encourage everyone, all who have great affection to her to visit a shrine dedicated to her, the greatest of all of God’s creation. ...
EASTER SUNDAY --- Christ is risen! It is the ultimate fulfilment of our Christianity. HALLELUIAH! I talked to some friends who told me the Holy Week was another occasion for "battery re-charging" of the spirit and of the faith. Yes, we sometimes experience "low batt" in spirit. Our...
WE are now in the Easter season, extending the happy celebration of the Resurrection of Christ, that tremendous and overwhelming divine gift that re-creates us and reconciles us with God our Father from whom we come and to whom we belong. We gleefully sing Happy Easter,...
The Bishops-Ulama Conference (BUC) is 18 years old this year (28 November 1996-28 Nov. 2014). The late Islamic Dr. Mahid M. Mutilan and I, as then CBCP chair of the Episcopal Commission on Inter-religious Dialogue, co-founded this association of 24 Catholic and 18 Protestant bishops...
Put mercy to action! Such is the invitation of the Feast of Mercy to each one of us, which, the Church celebrates today. Even if one is not a devotee of the Divine Mercy but as a baptized Christian and Catholic the call of mercy beckons...
EASTER SUNDAY --- Christ is risen! It is the ultimate fulfilment of our Christianity. HALLELUIAH! I talked to some friends who told me the Holy Week was another occasion for "battery re-charging" of the spirit and of the faith. Yes, we sometimes experience "low batt" in spirit. Our...
