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Tomorrow, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, is also the 76th anniversary of the start of World War II in the Pacific. It started with the Japanese bombing of the US Seventh Fleet anchored in Hawaii in…
Not a few people have asked me this question even before the on-going, P683-million underpass project along N. Bacalso Avenue. This question brings to mind the numerous 14th-15th-century artifacts that we recovered—and the many, many more that…
Since I wrote about the potentials for a monorail in Cebu last July 12, a study was conducted precisely to look into the possibility of this type of mass transit for Cebu. A press conference has been…
During my recent trip to Vietnam, I could not help but notice how things had changed since my last time there some eight years back. Spanking new cars had started to crowd out the voluminous horde of…
(This piece was supposed to appear during the week of the fourth anniversary of the 2013 earthquake but had to come out only now because of the sudden demise of our dearly beloved Ricardo Cardinal Vidal.) Among…
The visitor to the Vietnamese countryside, away from the bustling cities, is wont to notice a small number of tombs here and there amid seemingly endless rice fields. It’s my second or third time here; and I…
Because I have to present a paper at long-scheduled ceramics conference in Quy Nhon, Vietnam, I am deeply saddened that I cannot attend the requiem Mass and interment of His Eminence Ricardo Cardinal Vidal today. Instead, let…
I join the Catholic faithful as they enter into this period of mourning with the passing of our dearly beloved long-time shepherd of the flock, His Eminence Ricardo Cardinal Vidal, archbishop emeritus of Cebu. Ricardo Cardinal Vidal…
I would have wanted to share with you the entire two chapters and a half of Dr. Rothdauscher’s life memoirs covering Cebu. Gerhard Prokop, his great-grandson, is still polishing my translation and alas space will not allow…
In last week’s column, I introduced Dr. Heinrich Rothdauscher, a young 28-year-old German pharmacist who came to Cebu City to head the local branch of Botica Santa Cruz between 1879 and 1883. His great-grandson Gerhard Prokop has…
The 12th of December 1879 was a “critical day of the first order,” a memorable day. It has indelibly written its way into many of my beloved books, so I still have traces to this day. A…
President Rodrigo Duterte has declared this day, September 21, as a National Day of Protest (NDP). Today, of course, is the 45th anniversary of the declaration of martial law by the late president Ferdinand Marcos. (If we…
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