How children view death

Ruben Encarnacion - @inquirerdotnet 11/06/2021

A parent’s feelings about death often transfer to his child. Treating death as part of life may ease the child’s confusion and fear. A child’s age, emotional development, environment, and experience with death influence his or her…

Remembering

Rosario A. Garcellano - @inquirerdotnet 11/01/2021

The ceremony of remembering the dead is in full flower even as the living continue to be restricted by the pandemic. On television reportage on the rise and fall of the costs of cut flowers deemed needed…

Avoid hostile impositions

Ulpiano Z. Sarmiento - @inquirerdotnet 10/30/2021

Have you tried asking people who they would vote for in the upcoming national elections? Most of them would have a particular candidate in mind, but their personal answer would likely be prompted by a remark that…

DepEd Doc Mikee, take a bow

Mercedes H. Blancas - @inquirerdotnet 10/24/2021

Doc Mikee quietly works in a corner of a 63-square-meter room located at the ground floor of the Schools Division of San Jose City. This room, which she shares with a dentist and three nurses, serves as…

The ebb of Dutertismo

Dindo Manhit - @inquirerdotnet 10/23/2021

Populism ruled during the first five years of the Duterte administration. The COVID-19 pandemic, however, exacerbated by national officials’ mismanagement of the government response to the unprecedented health crisis, has unraveled the populist rhetoric that once made…

Not a time for fence-sitting

Minguita Padilla - @inquirerdotnet 10/02/2021

I believe I speak for most physicians when I say that we are happiest when we are making our patients happy. Aside from being with people we love, we feel most fulfilled when we are doing what…

Church shifts to voter education

Lito B. Zulueta - Arts and Books Editor / @LitoZulueta 10/01/2021

The recent pastoral letter of Northern Luzon prelates signals the Catholic Church’s shift to voter education in preparation for the 2022 elections. Grimly calling the country under the Duterte administration a “valley of death,” Archbishops Socrates Villegas…

Show us who’s footing the bill

Moira Gallaga - @inquirerdotnet 09/28/2021

With the filing of candidacies by prospective candidates for elected office in the May 2022 polls this October, the race is on, and the elections will be conducted during a pandemic, posing considerable challenges to the Commission…

The Marcos years: Not gold, but dust

Tony S. Bergonia - @inquirerdotnet 09/25/2021

The Cambridge online dictionary defines kleptocracy as “a state of unrestrained political corruption, literally meaning rule by thieves.” The world is replete with cases of kleptocracy as defined by Cambridge. In the Philippines, one case cited by…

Never forget the Conjugal Dictatorship

Crispin C. Maslog - @inquirerdotnet 09/19/2021

It is only eight months before the next national elections, and we now see the perennial politicians reminding us of their presence via TV ads and media interviews. One of them is former vice presidential candidate Bongbong…

Courage is a verb

Ed Garcia - @inquirerdotnet 09/12/2021

When dread descended upon our land as martial law was declared one September night nearly half a century ago, it unleashed harsh retribution on those who dared dissent or who raised their voices against the Marcos dictatorship.…

Can vaccination be required?

Geronimo L. Sy - @inquirerdotnet 09/11/2021

It is not known to many, but there is actually a law in the country that makes vaccination compulsory. Republic Act No. 10152, passed in 2011, is “An Act providing for Mandatory Basic Immunization for Infants and…

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