OPINION

We need to see to it that we are not merely surviving in these trying times of ours these days. We should be thriving, for indeed these difficult moments when we are subjected to a lot of restrictions are good occasions with tremendous potentials to enrich us in ways other than what we are used …

In the trial of Sen. Bong Revilla for plunder, the prosecution presented a summary of what its star witness called kickbacks, commissions or rebates received through his staff Richard Cambe.  Cambe is a lawyer who had served the Revilla family for so long until his indictment and eventual conviction for the non-bailable offense of plunder. …

I told him that we can never be separated as long as we live with God who in his wisdom and power unites us always whatever our conditions and circumstances may be. No, not distance, not even death can separate us from the others as long as we are with God. We are meant to …

I had taken up this issue several times in my column and this is just to reiterate again considering the importance of this because here in Bacolod City no implementation is in sight. It is a sad fact that like social distancing issue, the banning of tricycles, pedicabs and motorized pedicabs on national highways, which …

The secret, I think, is to go the extra mile at whatever we are doing, even if it is a manual household chore which usually is the case nowadays since our stay-out domestic helpers would most likely be not available at this time. Far from falling into idleness and boredom, this current condition of ours …

We sadly learned that fatalities arising from COVID-19 have just breached the “tragic milestone” of four million mark. Wikipedia, quoting the World Health Organization (WHO), reports that the United States led with 606K, closely followed by Brazil, 529k and India, 405K. Other countries which over 100,000 deaths included the following: Russia (138K), United Kingdom (128K), …

What I mean is that the open discussion of sex in public should not anymore be considered as taboo. Given the terrible state in which this basic human faculty is massively abused and misused today, we should proclaim the true gospel about sex relentlessly, “in season and out of season” as St. Paul once said. …

As a family in business develops over time, so must its purpose. There is no doubt that in the founder stage, purpose and action is directly correlated. The desire and dogged determination of the visionary to succeed and perpetuate the business becomes a powerful and compelling driver that permeates across all the family and business …

In our pursuit for the truth, as when we do our best to update, refine or polish what we already know about our faith and what are already defined as truths and doctrine of faith, we have to avoid getting so trapped and imprisoned by their exclusive nature that we sacrifice charity, especially its finer …

Article VII, Section 4 of the Constitution provides simply and unequivocally: “The President shall not be eligible for any reelection.” The framers of the 1987 Constitution could not have made that sentence any clearer. The provision was intended to prevent a repeat of the Marcos experience.  Ferdinand E. Marcos held the reins of executive power …