The Shepherd of Calvary

FR. FRANCIS ONGKINGCO 12/22/2017

Father! Father!” Roeh’s son Mehamer barged into his father’s cold and dank room. Roeh, blind and bedridden for many years, was clearly irritated. He was just about to finally catch sleep and Mehamer stole it from him.…

Wielder of the Force

Jeff Ruffolo 12/14/2017

Skywalker returns—along with Princess Leia Organa, Chewbacca, and the androids C-3PO and R2D2—to fight the good fight against the forces of galactic evil in “Star Wars: The Last Jedi.” And unless you have been living on the…

GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 11/02/2017

The five-year-old son of mayor Gisela Bendong Boniel of Bien Unido town in Bohol did what he was told. He threw white chrysanthemums into the sea in between the islands of Olango and Caubian in Lapu-Lapu City…

Saying goodbye to Cardinal Vidal

Ricky Poca 10/30/2017

His Eminence Cebu Archbishop Emeritus Ricardo Cardinal Vidal is dead, and he will be missed by the people, especially the Cebuanos who loved him so much. Cardinal Vidal shall be remembered by the people as fatherly, kind,…

Father in jail for shooting down son

Christian Orellano, Nestle L. Semilla 10/12/2017

A MAN landed in jail for reportedly shooting his son to death at Sitio San Vicente, Barangay Saksak in Aloguinsan town Cebu at past 9 P.M. last Wednesday, October 11. Insp. Sigmund Freud Cruz of the Aloguinsan…

Man arrested for hitting daughter with a piece of wood

Norman V. Mendoza 10/09/2017

A 58-year old man was arrested after he injured his daughter with a piece of wood in their home in Barangay Looc, Mandaue City on Sunday. The father, a fisherman, admitted that he was drunk when he…

My cousin, the soldier

Radel Paredes 09/30/2017

It was sometime during the first weeks of the war in Marawi when I talked about it with my cousin, who had spent some time in the Islamic city as part of his tour of duty when…

Father, son nabbed in Carcar City buy bust operation

Rene Alima 08/21/2017

A father and his son who has made the illegal drugs trade as a family business were arrested by the police in Barangay Perelos, Carcar City on Sunday. Mario Laputan Sr., 54, and Mario Jr., 24, are…

COACH ROLANDO ALVAREZ: Father of youth swimmers

Cris Evert Lato-Ruffolo 06/17/2017

Coach Rolando Alvarez does not have biological children. But he has been a father more than a thousand times — nurturing, both personally and professionally, young students to become professional athletes since he established the Cebu Blue…

Malcolm Sanchez: Being Dad

Apple Ta-as 06/17/2017

THE LIFE of Malcolm Sanchez became an open book the moment he decided to enter politics. Being one of the city councilors of Mandaue, he doesn’t mind telling his story over and over, even the one concerning…

Father was sent by heaven

Cris Evert Lato-Ruffolo 06/16/2017

I met Jeff as he was coming down from Mt. Olympus. He carried this strict, confident, in-control persona fresh from his back-to-back success in handling the international media affairs of the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Games and…

Behind the rain

Simeon Dumdum Jr. 06/10/2017

Because the baby kept her up all night, her mother turned her over to us in the morning so she could get some sleep. Naturally, we received our granddaughter with not a little excitement. After lolling and…

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