Relaxed church rules on divorce
An eleven-man panel of theologians and canon lawyers was recently appointed by His Holiness Pope Francis to study ways “to make annulment of Catholic marriages simpler.” The Vatican disclosed further that while the commission...
Christian life is both hard and easy
WE need to understand that there are times that we need to persist in bothering God for some extraordinary interventions in our lives. To be sure, God knows all our needs, even before we...
An outbreak
It’s been reported recently that many people in Tacloban City have been suffering from stomach problems coupled with vomiting and diarrhea. There have been casualties as a result, and many got sick, battling dehydration...
Phils pursues P1.2-B climate adaptation project
The Philippine government, through Land Bank of the Philippines (LBP) and the Philippine Atmospheric Geological and Seismological Administration (PAGASA), will implement a P1.2 billion ($22 million) climate adaptation project, purposely to prepare disaster-prone communities...
Komiks addiction
If nowadays, children and young people are addicted to modern gadgetry such as cellphones, tablets, and laptops, I in my boyhood and early teens was also addicted. But it was to a different thing--they...
Garbage hike
Normally, the twin holiday revelries of Christmas and New Year are already massive producers of accumulated trash on the streets. With the onslaught of typhoon Ursula, all the more that garbage mounds had proliferated.
This...