OPINION

Let’s be warned about this common and abidingly proximate danger. God has given us tremendous gifts. He has made us image and likeness of his. And so, he has given us intelligence and will, talents and skills, and so many other endowments that we even fail to realize. We always have to remember that with …

This, of course, is the best way to end the day. Whatever the drama during the day, we can afford to smile and be at peace in our sleep as long as we reconcile ourselves with Christ. Yes, that is what really matters.  We may still have a lot of unsolved problems and issues, challenges …

The past year has been a taste of how serious medical disasters could potentially be in the future. We must strengthen our country’s health system now to address the challenges that will surely present themselves in the years to come. Our experience in the past year demonstrated how shortages of beds, equipment, and healthcare workers …

Initial police pronouncements declared without qualification that the case of Christine Angelica Dacera was a rape-slay perpetrated by a gang of 11 men. Public vilification of the alleged malefactors quickly followed. Rape with homicide is a heinous crime deserving of the severest of penalties. Social media reaction was instantaneously unforgiving.  A gang-rape brings up mental …

Yes, instead of being afraid, irritated and stressed out whenever we have differences and conflicts with others, let’s be welcoming to them and take advantage of them. A lot of good can actually be derived from them, even if we are not exempted from being pained and mortified by them. Our differences and conflicts, which …

  “I am the vine, you are the branches.” Christ addressed these words to his disciples who now include us. They spell out how our relationship with Christ is. We are actually nothing without him. We need to be with him if we want to be what he wants us to be and what we …

We are seeing more family owned businesses (FOBs) interested in corporate governance today than we did a decade ago. But there are still many challenges confronting boards in Asia. A founder-centric and emotional nature of a family fused with the need to survive and grow a business makes it doubly difficult for a family advisor …

We should all be concerned about this matter. We need to develop a sense of vocation, for the simple reason that everyone has avocation. We come from God and we belong to him. He always calls us to himself and offers us a way to go to him.  The way to go to him, peculiar …

Philosopher and writer Machiavelli once said, “For this is the tragedy of man – circumstances change, but he doesn’t.”  In a well written Forbes article by globally recognized family business expert and author Prof Dennis Jaffe, he highlighted that “today’s pandemic crisis is turning everyone’s world upside-down in ways that couldn’t have been anticipated just …

Our dedication and fidelity to whatever vocation or commitment of love that we may have, be it in single blessedness or in marriage, in priesthood or in lay life, should be so pure and completely gratuitous that we would pursue and develop it without preconditions and ulterior motives.  This is what is proper to us …