Merry-Go-Round: Floro L. Mercene
THERE’s an outside chance that Cardinal Ricardo Vidal might be elected the next pope,
68 million Filipino Catholics are praying. More unbelievable things have happened in the Philippines.
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The drawback: Vidal is 74 and sickly. But he could be the dark horse in case there will be a showdown among the powerful candidates in the conclave of cardinals. Let us pray.
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The SSS chairman flew to Rome to represent the millions of SSS members at the funeral of the pope.
At the next funeral, it will be the turn of the GSIS chairman to go.
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Most Americans want the next pope to work for changes in the Catholic church’s policies to allow priests to marry and women to join the priesthood.
They are coming before the end of this century.
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AFP intelligence brands the church and some journalists as enemies of the state.
We will deal with you after the military takeover. Meantime you are under surveillance.
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The media entities named enemies of the state are the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines and the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism.
One is not even a union but a toothless guild while the other is a crusading outfit run by girls.
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The military has listed the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines as a subversive organization.
Sharing a bed with the Communists? The accusation is old hat.
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None of the more than 200 congressmen dare to go public to support the bill legalizing divorce.
The missus will lace their dinner with cyanide if they try.
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DILG Secretary Angelo Reyes has directed the PNP to provide protection to journalists who have been receiving death threats.
But that is the last thing they want.
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MMDA Chairman Bayani Fernando is being panned by critics for his traffic innovations, the latest of which are the pink fences installed at EDSA to keep vehicles and pedestrians in their proper lanes.
Fernando is doing a good job and should ignore his detractors. Traffic in Metro Manila has improved somewhat because of his innovations.
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War veterans in Wyoming have agreed to return to the Philippines two bronze bells taken from the Balangiga church in Samar in l90l during a massacre of American soldiers in that town.
The Yanks are our friends after all.
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General, his wife, and their three children are charged with plunder at Sandiganbayan for amassing
R300 million in ill-gotten wealth.
Ombudsman says the case is fool-proof. We’ll see a conviction at last and it’s a whole clan.
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Since l967, on April 2 yearly, International Children’s Book Day is celebrated to inspire love of reading and to call attention to children’s books.
This event seems to pass unnoticed by many in the Philippines but a good British Samaritan — Bevil Mabey Study Foundation, a charitable arm of Mabey and Johnson, Ltd., supplier and constructor of the President’s Bridge Program.
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Bevil Mabey Study Foundation has provided relatively comprehensive reference libraries to over 30 underprivileged schools every year which gives significance to the yearly ICBD celebration.
Most of the recipients are poor rural schools close to Mabey & Johnson bridge sites. Mabey & Johnson is indeed a business enterprise with a social conscience doing business in the Philippines. May its tribe increase.
