Author: Jesus Quitain

Spain evangelized Luzon and Visayas when Urdaneta, Legaspi occupied Manila in the late 1500s. The mission work was uninterrupted for 500 years. The Jesuits were the first and only Mindanao missionaries beginning the middle of the 1600s. They pulled out two times; in the late...

[gallery columns="1" size="full" ids="35357,35358,35359"] We have been bombarded with election trivia, fake news and garbage since January 2022. We suffered from mental and visual indigestion. We drowned in TV, newspaper, cellphones and social media election garbage. This will be my last election notes until 2025. These were...

Some say the 1949 Presidential election was the worst ever. The 1950-51 Senate hearings about the 1949 election showed that in some Mindanao barrios, there were more voters than number of residents and that some registered voters did vote even when they had died before...

There are about 120 million Filipinos and around 67 million are registered voters. About 45% of these voters are above 18 years old but below 30. They belong to the youth vote. However, many more belonging to the youth vote are not registered voters for...

During Holy Week, most TV stations, YouTube, Netflix, etc. show religious films. My favorite films during Holy Week are: first, “Quo Vadis” a 1951 MGM movie starring Robert Taylor as Marcus Vinicius, Deborrah Kerr as Christian slave, Lygia and Peter Ustinor as Emperor Nero. The...

I was eleven years old in 1952 (70 years ago) when I first noticed that Holy Week activities are different from the daily church services. It begins on Ash Wednesday and ends 40 days later on Palm Sunday. The 40-day period is a reminder of...