I was a judge from 1985 to 2006. In the early 1990s, a young man asked if I can solemnize his marriage at the Davao General Hospital (now the Southern Philippines Medical Center). He said his sick wife who was pregnant pleaded that they should...
In 2020, 3 regions raced to make the first covid vaccine. The first vaccine producer will rake in billions of dollars in profits even if only one out of eight people will buy it. The first vaccines were made by 2 US drug firms then...
10 years ago, I clipped an article which attracted me. During this COVID-19 season, I spent time looking at my files and I again saw this article. I am sharing it with everyone because it is very touching. One Solitary Life He was born in an obscure...
Why are we celebrating? Evangelization came to a halt in 1521 because the Spaniards left when Magellan was killed. It began again in 1556 when Legaspi returned to Cebu. The 2021 Society of St. Paul’s 365 Days with the Lord book has a very nice article...
Spain and Portugal were the world’s greater nations during the 15th and 16th century. They fought many times over newly discovered lands. In 1497, the Pope intervened and divided the world thus: Spain: North and South America (except Brazil) and Portugal: Africa, India, Indonesia (treaty...
Last, December 2019 and January 2020, all newspapers, magazines, radio/TV stations, philosophers, thinkers, made their usual yearly guesses, forecasts analysis together with fortune tellers, card/tarot readers, crystal/skies gazers, sorcerers, soothsayers, clairvoyants, palm readers and others. All missed the impact of COVID-19 which as early as...
The Western (Persian, Greek, etc.) zodiac differ in some ways from the Chinese Zodiac. 2020 in the Chinese zodiac is the year of the rat. Even the polite and kind Chinese have little good to say about rats. In its last appearance in 2008, the world's...
In the 1990s, my sala was the first Davao City Regional Trial Court to examine DNA evidence to prove the relationship between two (2) persons. A Japanese husband filed a case to annul his marriage to a Filipina. The husband attached voluminous DNA documents from...
Once upon a time, there was a baby angel. After many years, she was still small while her companion baby angels became bigger. She can fly, shine brighter as a star and sing more beautiful but she was always left behind. One day, Archangel Gabriel said...
He was a good Lolo. Everyone liked him because he was kind and friendly. One day his wife died. His family and friends tried to cheer him up but he was crushed by the loss of Lola Ebya. Later, Lolo Isio changed. He became forgetful,...