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Is it church meddling or duty to right a wrong?
BASED on her reading of the encyclical "Deus Caritas Est" given her by Pope Benedict XVI, President Arroyo has accused Msgr. Deogracias Iñiguez of violating church doctrine, if not also the constitutional provision on the separation of church and state when he filed his impeachment complaint against her.
World Allergy Day
JULY 8 is observed yearly as World Allergy Day and is intended to help increase worldwide awareness of allergy-related problems and to disseminate well-founded information about how allergies can be prevented and how their symptoms and effects can be eased. Information distributed is mainly aimed at patients and physicians and intended for non-allergy sufferers as well. The main concern is for the well-being of the patient and enabling them to manage their allergy.
Bishops tackling intervention issue
AS the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines goes into its regular meeting this weekend, it will pay special attention to the encyclical "Deus Caritas Est" which the administration claims prohibits churchmen from engaging in political affairs.
Safe water for all
OUR national and local leaders, including an army of politicians and their followers, have all the nicest arguments for or against amending the 1987 Constitution.
Familiarity breeds contempt
THERE was once a professor in theology at a Catholic university. On his first day, he asked the students to write down what their notion of Jesus was.
The question about fasting
Matthew 9:14-17
Concern on narrow fixation
STILL another advantage that a Road Map brings is that it expands the coverage of our concern to include all important aspects of life. Again, this is a radical, and clearly welcome, change from our usual tendency to be fixated upon only one or two aspects of life: The political and the financial.
Pyongyang’s threat
SENSITIVITY to threats, whether real or imagined, has impelled President Gloria Arroyo to voice the country’s concern over North Korea’s ballistic missile program following last week’s test-firing of seven missiles, including what it calls Taepodong-2, the latest long-range nuclear weapon.
State of Journalism Education
A PRIORITY issue raised during the UNESCO Consultative Meeting in Paris was that of redefining the mission and functions of journalism and to realign the curricula with this new philosophy. The two areas of reform which would respond to globalization and the "revolutionary" impact of technology are the inclusion of a core course on the fundamentals of digital journalism or online journalism; and the active utilization of the digital technologies to improve the learning process.
Disembowelling the dinosaur
WHEN the late Speaker of the House Ramon V. Mitra ran for president in 1992, he compared the government to a dinosaur: A small head and a large body (one might add: A long tail). He pledged to streamline the bureaucracy, but he lost, the consequence of which was that succeeding presidents even enlarged the dinosaur’s body.
Prime-time crime
THE entire upper half of this page last Thursday was a triptych, a three-paneled work of art, in which the President, her just-sworn-in chief of police, and his immediate predecessor took turns praising one another and promising to do good and do better to "serve and protect."
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