I am now 81 years old. Because of the COVID-19 lockdown, protocols and alerts, I have more time to read and think. Instead of going around and window shopping, I believe we seniors should spend time recalling our catechism classes. What is the bible? It...
Some say the synod called by Pope John XXIII more popularly known as Vatican Council II (1962-1965) made a very big impact on the church and on the world. Some say that in the 40’s, up to the early 60’s, there were signs that the...
Synod is a Greek word meaning a council. It is associated with a church activity like a consultative council of the clergy. There had been more than 21 synods. The first was held in 325 in Nicaea which made a formula of faith called the...
Q: I want my driver’s license to have a notice that I want to be an organ donor but I’m afraid if I am unconscious in a bad accident, the doctors will finish me so they can use my organs for other purposes. A: The top...
More than 365 days have passed since the March 22, 2020 lockdown. We have had time to think about the things we did and did not do but should have done. COVID-19 has jolted me. I have more time to read Bible passages and watch TV,...
Oratio and Imperata are more than 2,000-year-old Latin words. Oratio is the source of the English word oration -- a formal speech given in a special/ceremonial occasion. Today, it relates to church prayers. Imperata relates to empire (Roman — imperial, emperor, imperium — suggesting awesome...
On Monday, May 17, 2021, senior citizens nationwide rose as one and met in designated places to confront and destroy the world’s worst danger. The battle began earlier with the vaccine jabbings of the frontliners - police, military, health and hospital workers. This started the...
I was a judge from 1985 to 2006. In the early 1990s, a young man asked if I can solemnize his marriage at the Davao General Hospital (now the Southern Philippines Medical Center). He said his sick wife who was pregnant pleaded that they should...
Last, December 2019 and January 2020, all newspapers, magazines, radio/TV stations, philosophers, thinkers, made their usual yearly guesses, forecasts analysis together with fortune tellers, card/tarot readers, crystal/skies gazers, sorcerers, soothsayers, clairvoyants, palm readers and others. All missed the impact of COVID-19 which as early as...
In the 1990s, my sala was the first Davao City Regional Trial Court to examine DNA evidence to prove the relationship between two (2) persons. A Japanese husband filed a case to annul his marriage to a Filipina. The husband attached voluminous DNA documents from...