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According to actual and self-appointed mouthpieces of the current dispensation, last week’s arrest of journalist Maria Ressa was not an attack on our freedoms. The Consortium on Democracy and Disinformation believes otherwise. The consortium is a national…
Apart from the 14th of February, when we celebrate the memorial of the saints named Valentine, we can remember them in the English word valiant, which is synonymous with courage, which has Latin roots that denote…
Although the state’s weather bureau predicts that February will be quite cool or cold, things will eventually change and tourists will once again be on the move, taking advantage of days of hot weather. For…
Folly and terror and nothing more motivated the perpetrators of the recent bombing of the Cathedral of Jolo, and they have no business attaching their horrific deed to any political or religious cause, for violence upsets…
Something is lost in the elevation of the Holy Child in the manger to the status of small king, something that we should retrieve: our appreciation of weakness. This was the takeoff point of the…
Thank you, Santo Niño. More than anything, the Fiesta Señor, the solemnity of the Holy Child Jesus of Cebu, is a festival of thanksgiving. Of course, we pilgrims come to the God who became a child with…
To be beautiful is to be who one is in God’s order of creation. Only in this divine order, this fullness of beauty is the universe set aright. What is beautiful? What is beauty? Millions of Filipinos…
Today, our world is in need of so much healing. Our societies and many relationships are suffering fragmentation. Cebuanos celebrate today the Solemnity of the Blessed Virgin Mary under the title Our Lady of Guadalupe. The title…
May she intercede with God for our land, that those who are addicted may find healing, that those who spread lies may become truthful, that those who enjoy sin may apprehend sin’s bitterness, that those who kill…
The expansiveness of the space around me truly befitted the dignity of the only Philippine school system entitled by law to be called the national university. The first time I really started exploring the University of the…
After 15 man years, Marga has died. Marga is a mongrel whose happy grounds were the campus of the University of the Philippines (UP) in Lahug, Cebu City. Members of the UP Cebu community led by the…
We come at last to Allhallowtide. I grew up thinking that this season was all about ghouls and ghosts, that this was a legacy of the Celts. But Halloween, or All Hallows’ (Saints’) Eve actually forms a…
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