With one Latin and two Spanish words the title of this column means, “Sleeping Place of San Pedro”. To avoid misunderstanding, the titles does not refer to the body, bones and ashes of San Pedro. It only means that the place is owned by the...
In the previous issue of Davao Catholic Herald, my Shalom column, at the editor’s request with my approval, was used as front page article. In the last paragraph I wrote that Mayor Duterte met with me for the scond time. He brought along Councilor Rieta...
As the schools nationwide, public and private, begin to open this month of June 2014, millions of our children troop to their favored learning institutions in their locality, province, or Metro Manila areas. In places devastated by killer typhoons and earthquakes, very few of these...
There are many forms of goodness. There are as many as there are individuals. The number of individuals in the world today is 8 billion, more or less. That means it is possible to have 8 billion forms of goodness. Why is this so? The reason...
Twice in his first apostolic exhortation, Evangelii Gaudium (Joy of the Gospel), Our Holy Father Pope Francis uses this expression (Nos.88 & 288). This strikes me as interesting and significant. Why? ‘Intetresting’ because it calls our, at least mine, attention, especially to the twice repeated use...
Light and power generated by electricity are basic daily needs. So basic and so needed are these that every minute of our day and night is affected. Either awake or asleep we cannot be without them for a long time. In addition, water runs out when...
One of the great wonders of the world is the creation of man out of nothing. Hence man is the crown of creation. But perhaps the greatest among them is the wonder of sinners becoming saints! This is what the philosopher Soren Kierkegaard had once said....
1. The first question is, why is there a proliferation of arms and ammunitions. bombs and land mines in Mindanao? This is not about the provision on Demobilization in the Signed Agreement; it’s not only about gun running and arms smuggling either, which is common knowledge. It...
The Bishops-Ulama Conference (BUC) is 18 years old this year (28 November 1996-28 Nov. 2014). The late Islamic Dr. Mahid M. Mutilan and I, as then CBCP chair of the Episcopal Commission on Inter-religious Dialogue, co-founded this association of 24 Catholic and 18 Protestant bishops...
In last week’s Shalom I mentioned that the weapons industry or the manufacture of arms and ammunitions in some First World countries is a multi-billion dollar business. Marketlng agents of these manufacturing firms directly or indirectly sell their products to both governments and rebel groups...
