Becoming contemplative
THIS is no big deal actually. We have to disabuse ourselves from the thought that to be contemplative is an impossible dream.
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When faith and moral issues enter politics
IT’S unfair, it crosses the line when people who are campaigning for anti-RH candidates, and reciprocally are campaigning against pro-RH candidates, are pigeonholed as fanatical, narrow-minded and bigoted for being just a one-issue group.
The restless and critical youth
ONE of the biggest challenges of schools, and even before the schools, the family, the parents especially, is how to deal with young people who because of current world conditions are increasingly restless and critical of just about anything.
Adaptive, flexible but firm, consistent
A COMBINATION to die for! We just have to work it out. There’s always hope, and chances to attain this goal as long as we are also willing to take what it requires.
Fidelity in an age of promiscuity
THE title may refer more immediately to married couples who are committed to their spouses for a lifetime of love.
Permit for illusion
It’s dolled up as “permit to campaign”. In remote Northern Luzon outposts or Mindanao backwaters, candidates cough up cash for a clearance, from armed groups, before they pitch for votes.
Is the Church in crisis?
TO give a quick, blunt reply, the Church has always been in crisis. That’s its character, it goes with the territory, since it has to deal with all kinds of people, some brilliant and faithful, others not so, etc. That it appears in crisis today is no breaking news.
Democracy hacked
WE need to be wary of a certain observable drift in world developments, especially in the area of politics, which show signs that things are taken out of their proper foundation.
Evil fathomed, borne and destroyed
IF there is anything that is very prominently highlighted in the Good Friday liturgy and the entire Easter Triduum that ends on Easter Sunday, it is that all the evil and malice we are capable of committing are fathomed and measured by Christ, borne and assumed by him and finally destroyed and conquered.
Let’s be good partisans
NOW that we are again into exercising our duties as citizens to elect our public officials, we need to remind ourselves to be good partisans.
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