Word of God Sunday
POPE Francis has assigned the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time as the Sunday of the Word of God. In the Philippine this coincides with the Bible Sunday which is observed around this date—and the month […]
Editorial
Trying hard to make sense out of death penalty
FOUR have already filed bills seeking the reimposition of death penalty in the country. Senators Christopher Go, Ronald dela Rosa and Manny Pacquiao, all allies of President Rodrigo Duterte, target the drug war as the […]
The metaphors of the net
SOME fifty-three or so years ago, not one would have thought—not even Pope Paul VI who initiated the celebrations of World Communications Day in 1966—that social communications would have morphed into becoming a social network […]
What’s up with the National Museum?
OF LATE an emissary has reportedly called on the Diocese of Borongan to negotiate that one of the Balangiga bells be placed at the National Museum in Manila. Although National Museum Director Jeremy Barns […]
China and the Vatican
ON September 22, 2018, the Vatican has announced that it has signed with the People’s Republic of China a “provisional agreement on the appointment of bishops,” allowing Chinese Catholics to have bishops who are in […]
The bigger tragedy is government’s ‘love’ for miners
WHILE the mayor of Itugon municipality in Benguet continues to bewail the obstinacy of the poor small-scale miners that did not heed his repeated calls for them to evacuate before the onslaught of typhoon Ompong, […]