Some may be inclined to ridicule Christians because of being in this or that denomination, whether Catholic or any other Christian denomination, whatever that be. Yet as the Latin proverb attests—contra factum non valet argumentum (translate as: you cannot argue against facts), which means...
On November 26, 2010, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI met members of the Italian Federation of Catholic weeklies representing 188 Catholic newspapers. He stressed three points. First: The Catholic Press has a very important role in forming a Christian conscience. Second, it must reflect clearly the...
Sa mga simbahan dunay mga karatula: “Be Honest….” ug “Dress modestly”. Sa ubang mga dapit nga saba, hugaw, sagbot, ug lain ang mga baho, kinahanglan dunay mga karatula sulat o pahibalo nga magsogyot niining mosunod: 1. Ayaw ninyo ilabay sa canal, dalan o agianan ang inyong mga...
Bisan pa sa sogyot sa ubang Obispo nga ipa-abolish ang pork barrel duna pa gihapoy pork barrel sa tuig 2014. Ang matag Senador P200 million, ang matag congressman P70 million ug ang total P27 billion. Matud nila istriktohon na daw nila ang paagi sa paggamit...
RICE SHORTAGE? A head of the rice traders association feared that the country will suffer a rice shortage very soon due to the depletion of the buffer stock in the "palengke" and in the warehouses of the National Food Authority. I personally met and talked...
Different kinds of hospitals have different strengths. General hospitals, as the term implies, handle all types of medical and surgical treatment, while specialized hospitals focus on specific illnesses and procedures. Community hospitals, which may have anywhere from 50 to 300 beds, are private, nonprofit, and...
This topic is meant to provoke healthy speculations. Which is a mental exercise in truth-seeking. We are therefore requested not to jump into conclusions without actual knowledge of the truth supported by cold evidence. Our main purpose is to speculate on the bombings as political statement....
WE go through life in stages. We start as a fertilized egg in our mother’s womb. Then we develop into a fetus. We are born, we are infants, a toddler, a schoolkid, an...
When the late Senator Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino posed the rhetorical question whether the Filipinos were worth dying for, no one for a moment thought at that time that he was predicting his own assassination that eventually led to the downfall of martial law President Ferdinand...
The 1983 Code of Canon Law does not define BEC, nor does it contain a provision that pertains to it directly. Nonetheless, we can find an authoritative description from the 1990 encylical of Blessed John Paul II that says, the basic ecclesial communities are «groups...
