It is always pleasant and mentally therapeutic to walk along the shore of any calm and scenic beach. Boracay is obviously not one of them in my list of fun beaches. Anyways, as a child I enjoyed beach-combing with my father. He didn’t only love...
“I DID not come to call the righteous but sinners.” (Mt 1,13) That’s quite clear. Christ came to save all men. That’s what’s always in his mind. While not neglecting anyone, he however...
It is important that you be true to yourself from the very depths of your nature. It’s no use to pretend to be what you are not. Sooner or later your true nature will show itself. So it’s no use pretending to...
During the middle ages, at the time of the crusades when the Christian nations of Europe were engaged in a prolonged and fierce war with the Saracens for control of the Holy Land, the French, the English, the German crusaders flew the banners of their...
“Unbundling” is another common cause for overcharges. When a hospital unbundles, it splits the price of a single medical procedure into several costs, then bills you for each one. Instead of charging you P 2,500 for an emergency hysterectomy, for instance, it would charge you...
LIKE HEROIN -- Unknown to many of us, there is a developing "meltdown" in the world's economy and it may again trigger a financial crash. The European problems are putting the pressure on the world. In the Philippines, we are seeing volatility of the currencies...
Walay tawo nga nagkinabuhi ug nangalagad nga nag-inusa ra. Sa diwa sa panaglambigitay, tuguti ako sa pagpaambit kaninyo sa mosunod nga sulat nga gipadala nako sa mga bag-ong napili nga opisyal sa lalawigan sa Davao del Sur. Ang unod niini, haom usab alang sa mga...
The words of German psychologist and philosopher Karl Jaspers were prophetic when he said, “If I suppress something that I consider absolute, automatically, another absolute takes its place” (Jaspers, K., Filosofía, I, p. 385, English translation mine). Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger warned us, in a homily...
Certainly etched in our memories are the mother’s care for us from our earliest years. No wonder a mother’s love and care has something of sacredness in its very concept. God has been so wise indeed giving us a mother’s care even in our spiritual needs and...
I would like to describe here in detail certain aspects of that privileged moment when I concelebrated with Pope Francis in the chapel of Santa Martha inside the Vatican. That moment occurred on 25 May 2013. Those aspects showed external signs of the Pope's simplicity...
