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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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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