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 …
OPINION
Vice President Duterte?
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 …
Let go of the lettuce in your life
I came across an article about letting go of the lettuce in our lives from a motivational speaker named Catherine Devyries. It is a lettuce story of U.S.-based Delta Airlines. The gist of the story is simple, we hold on to the things which are not meant for us. We carry excess baggages, thus our …
The scourge of impurity
The lesson and insight I learned from those years was that God allows us to get dirty in difficult if not impossible situations in order to purify us, to prod us to really grow in the virtues in their genuine state and not just their appearance or caricature. He never leaves us and is always …
Microbe communities
Your tongue microbes are more similar to those living on someone else’s tongue than they are to those living in your throat or on your gums! Microbes in the mouth fascinates A. Murat Eren, doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.). “It’s a very special and small environment that’s microbially diverse enough that we can really start to …
All things to all men
Yes, we have to be all things to all men, including those who are very different from us, those whose views, positions, lifestyles, ideologies, beliefs, etc. are incompatible with ours. This is what is to be truly Christian. If we fail in this test, we cannot really consider ourselves as authentically Christian. These are words …
Shooting for 170
BPI Family Savings Bank, the biggest thrift bank in the Philippines, celebrated its 36th year last July 1 – two days ahead of Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas’s 28th anniversary. BPI Family was established in 1985 following the historic merger between BPI and Family Bank and Trust Company, a universal bank positioned in the consumer banking …
Fear, panic, paranoia
When our fear is of the unhealthy type or, worse, has degenerated into panic and paranoia, we continue to feel helpless and unable to function well as we should. It is kind of obsessive that leaves us feeling insecure and always in the state of fright. It’s a fear that finds no relief. It is …
A learners’ crisis
Recently, news articles came out about a very disconcerting World Bank assessment on Philippine education. Specifically, the report underscored that one in every four Grade 5 students does not have the reading and mathematics skills for Grade 2 or 3, and four in every five 15-yeard-old students do not understand basic mathematical concepts such as …
Strange defenses
In a televised address to the nation last May 31, President Rodrigo Duterte said that he cannot allow the release of all the records relative to the nationwide war on drugs that he began upon assumption to office in 2016. He said this after the Department of Justice itself commenced an investigation into the “nanlaban” …