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Something is lost in the elevation of the Holy Child in the manger to the status of small king, something that we should retrieve: our appreciation of weakness. This was the takeoff point of the…
Thank you, Santo Niño. More than anything, the Fiesta Señor, the solemnity of the Holy Child Jesus of Cebu, is a festival of thanksgiving. Of course, we pilgrims come to the God who became a child with…
For over two years, Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino, Jr., whose memory Filipinos celebrated yesterday, the 35th anniversary of his assassination, was my contemporary. The other day, I watched with my father the closing segments of a 10-year-old documentary,…
President Rodrigo Duterte’s interpretation of the creation story as written in Genesis is full of errors but in the greater scheme of things sets the stage for catechesis. First, he states that God created man out of…
It is well that we celebrated yesterday the 120th year of Philippine independence without excessive optimism or dogmatism about the concept. While we accept that our nation-statehood began in 1898, the notion of our independence should be…
A good friend from the university, one who used to study here, died last night, having taken his own life. The irony in the death of this young man, popularly known as J.I., is that he had…
The things I will never forget from Chief Justice Maria Lourdes P.A. Sereno when she spoke to us and guests at the University of the Philippines Cebu last Thursday, fifth of April have to do not only…
Osaka — Though the majority creed in Japan is Shintoism and Buddhism, the enshrinement of freedom of religion in the country’s laws means that Christians are free to live their faith here. I saw this in this…
Kyoto — Scholars of ethics, religion, philosophy, and psychology from around the world gathered in the city of Kobe from March 22 to 24 last week to share the latest research in a conference with the theme…
The Republic of the Philippines, according to its President, is withdrawing from the International Criminal Court (ICC) because, again according to the same Chief Executive, it is a European Union invention. President Rodrigo Duterte also said the…
I was listening to the radio when local station dyAB broadcast the call of some Supreme Court employees for Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno to resign. The speech of Erwin Ocon, president of the Supreme Court Employees…
Like many a former student of mine at the University of the Philippines (UP) Cebu, Myles Albasin, whom our military captured with five others in the still of the night in the mountains of Negros Oriental last…
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