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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.
Philippine Independent Church 104th Anniversary
THE Philippine Independent Church is the story of the Filipino people’s struggle to secularize and Filipinize the Catholic Church in the country. It is also the expression of the Filipino people’s desire to enjoy the freedom to profess the religion of their own choice.
Our anchors: Excellence & Ethics
TODAY, the Integrated Bar of the Philippines marks the first step in its fresh thousand-mile journey.
US, Britain risking much in Lebanon war
CAIRO — The United States and Britain have taken a big gamble by justifying Israel’s third invasion of Lebanon because an Israeli failure to achieve its objectives will undermine their own position in the Middle East.
The parable of the dragnet
Matthew 13:47-53
Initiatives on values
BUSINESS has looked at the two strategic objectives concerning values. The first is Responsible Citizenship, which the business sector wishes to use to give a pointed emphasis on subsidiarity and solidarity. These two need to be included in good personal governance. The second is Good Governance, which covers the gamut from corporate and institutional to public governance. Thus, the whole field of governance, from personal to public, is in the business sector’s radar screen.
Losing Baguio
WHEN Baguio was still a pristine Hill Station, one could see the South China Sea from the Santo Tomas mountains. Mirador Hill, Dominican Hill and Quezon Hill had velvety mantles of pine trees that exuded an inebriating fragrance of pine and fresh moss. Among the other hill stations in Asia — Darjeeling in North India, Simla in Sri Lanka, Bandung in Indonesia and the Cameron Highlands in Malaysia — Baguio was probably the prettiest. Established as a vacation spot for American colonizers, the "City of Pines" was one of the country’s natural gardens. Shamefully, the Baguio of today is a mere caricature of what it used to be.
Over-exposed
WELL, it’s good the President is limiting her activities in Malacañang, according to doctor’s advice.
The proxy wars
IT strikes this observor as ironic that while Shiites and Sunnis are killing each other in Iraq, the Shiite terrorist organization Hezbollah and the Sunni terrorists Hamas are cooperating in the present Hezbollah/Israeli war being staged in Lebanon. So one could hardly call it a sectarian war. It has much more to do with territory. Both Hezbollah and Hamas would like to see the Jews driven out of Israel. Israel, in turn, would like to disarm (and if possible destroy) both Hezbollah and Hamas. When Hamas won the Palestine elections, there was some nascent hope that Hamas had turned to the political arena to work out its problems with Israel and that we could foresee an equable creation of two states.
Union terms at DepEd
IT’S like a collective bargaining agreement signed between a pre-martial law government corporation labor union and the management.
Morning of a monk
HE was probably mistaken for one of the bishops who reportedly received a monetary donation from a Malacañang religious adviser because of the black habit he wore when he stepped out a few yards from a BPI branch in Quezon City (where he had withdrawn P9,000) as a black Lancer whisked by and one of three hooded men pulled him to the car and demanded his money at the point of a gun. But Father Cleopas Santamaria is actually a Greek Orthodox monk, the only Filipino of the Eastern faith, rather poor, for the money had been sent by his father so he could fly to Cebu today to attend a friend’s wedding.
Bantay Matanda
EVEN if they wanted to "rage, rage against the dying of the light," how many percent of elderly citizens have the physical energy to do so?
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