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I like to think that I am not a candidate for hypertension, never mind my proclivity for pork dishes. When I come home after writing my master’s thesis, I look forward to dining in Barangay Tisa, Cebu…
Feast day greetings go today to the people of Talisay City, Cebu, who celebrate the passing over into heaven of Saint Teresa of Avila. She is the saint in whose honor others like Therese of Lisieux and…
An inside joke among some biblical scholars holds that the reason most appearing angels greet humans with the line “Be not afraid” is their frightening appearance. The anthropomorphic renditions of angels in art, basically as winged babies…
I am going home soon. I do not complain. This is privilege denied to many Filipino workers who spend several years if not decades overseas before they can smell our tropical air again, before they can hold…
I would like to start this edition by congratulating Ador Vincent Mayol, Cebu Daily News (CDN) senior reporter, on being adjudged print and online reporter of the year at the recent Globe Media Excellence Awards. Ador is…
If social media is a clue to the quality of our neighborliness, we have much reason for disillusionment, especially if we examine the discourse in the aftermath of the blasts that killed 14 and injured scores of…
(Conclusion) The year was 1535. Sir Thomas More, some time Lord High Chancellor of England, was incarcerated by the king, Henry III. A devout Catholic, Thomas had stood by Church teaching and refused to approve of the…
(First of two parts) The year was 96 AD. The place: the isle of Patmos in Greece. It was a Sunday. Saint John, traditionally known as the disciple whom Jesus loved, was an old man. In an…
I hope I have not seen you and walked on by. Had I encountered you at a street corner and had my heart been wider, would I have looked through you to my all-important destination? Would I…
In the first installment of Peter Jackson’s motion picture rendition of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings,” the voice of the character Galadriel that actress Cate Blanchett played introduces viewers to Middle Earth, describing it as…
On the blacktop, the wife cradles her husband’s corpse. A suspected drug pusher, he was shot dead in a police operation. Photographs of the harrowed living embracing the unfeeling, bleeding dead have become familiar. The Philippine Daily…
A panorama of the city of Leicester here in the United Kingdom (UK) with a rainbow in the sky was one of the pictures that Mayor Peter Soulsby showed in a presentation three days ago, when he…
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