Hypocrite Nation

Raymund Fernandez 05/24/2016

It is the measure of how low we have come in the political discourse when would-be leaders declare how bad they are and then accuse everyone else, especially their opponents, of being hypocrites. It would seem innocuous.…

Digong slams Catholic Church’s stand on family planning

05/22/2016

Davao City — Despite strong opposition from the Catholic Church, presumptive President-elect Rodrigo Duterte on Sunday said he would push for family planning, saying the Church’s beliefs were no longer relevant. “It will do us good. Mas…

Palma: Respect life; no to death penalty

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Jameela Antoniette I. Mendoza 05/18/2016

How much do we respect life? How much do we want to defend the right of innocent people (who are wrongly accused of doing something bad)? Do we give a chance to those who committed crimes and…

Vote-buying a ‘social sin’, Church reminds voters

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 02/13/2016

Catholic Church officials joined their voices to the appeal by the Commission on Elections (Comelec)  to voters not to engage in vote-buying yesterday, saying it is a “social sin.” Cebu Provincial Election Officer Ferdinand Gujilde admitted they…

No bloc voting for Church in 2016 polls, say priests

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 09/25/2015

While corruption continues to hound the government, two Cebuano priests said the Catholic Church will never endorse candidates or compel its members to vote for particular individuals. “All we could do is  educate voters  and hope that…

Catholic Church celebrates Mother Mary’s birthday

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 09/08/2015

Catholics all over the world celebrate the traditional birthday of the Blessed Virgin Mary today. In Cebu, thousands of devotees are expected to troop to the Marian shrine in Simala, Sibonga town. A 10 a.m. Mass at…

Not yet your time, Grace

Ricky Poca 07/28/2015

Many were excited to hear yesterday who President Aquino would announce as  standard bearer of the Liberal Party for the 2016 elections.  (They’ll have to wait though until after the  State of the Nation Address.) Many are…

Ending the romance with dirty coal

Atty. Gloria Estenzo Ramos 07/27/2015

Why is the most vulnerable and poster country to climate impacts still gung-ho about coal? It defies reason and logic to build more climate-change causing coal power plants amid the indubitable fact that burning coal and other…

Archbishop Villegas calls on LGBT community to aspire to become holy, saints

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 07/17/2015

Be holy and aspire to become saints. This was the challenged posed by Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transexual (LGBT) community during a convention on family and life by Catholic leaders in…

Pope Francis not attending Eucharistic Congress next year

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 07/14/2015

It’s final. Pope Francis won’t return to the Philippines for the International Eucharistic Congress (IEC) in Cebu City in January 2016. The Holy Father, however, will send his representative during the week-long gathering, said Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates…

Pope: Corruption is gangrene of people

07/13/2015

ASUNCION, Paraguay—Pope Francis decried the scourge of corruption as the “gangrene of a people” on Saturday in Paraguay, one of the poorest countries in South America and where graft is rampant. The 78-year-old Pope—in Paraguay on the…

Archdiocese to hold BBL forum today

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 06/16/2015

THE Cebu Archdiocese will hold a forum on the proposed Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) at the SPFY Covered Court inside the Archbishop’s Residence compound along D. Jakosalem Street in Cebu City at 8 a.m. to 12 noon…

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