US based Catholic journalist and commentator John Allen (who is orthodox and a fan of Opus Dei) was objective enough to say on CNN that the child sex abuse scandals is no longer particular to the US, Irish or German church for that matter, but is of the Global (Universal) Catholic Church. Allen says that [...]
Church, Cash and Candidates
March 12, 2010 By 4 Comments
Reading the blurbs I was much surprised to learn that The Iglesia ni Cristo (INC) has issued disclaimers about people soliciting cash for the political campaign using its name. This is the first time I have read that a major player in the Pinoy religious landscape has publicly issued such a disclaimer both in English [...]
A test for secularism and women’s rights
September 17, 2009 By 76 Comments
In an addition to issues raised by Caffeine_Sparks, the print edition of today’s Philippine Daily Inquirer carries a news item reporting that the Catholic Educational Association of the Philippines (CEAP) is seeking an exemption from the implementing rules and regulations (IRR) of the recently passed Magna Carta of Women. The law prohibits the dismissal of [...]
Bookstores and heresy
September 1, 2009 By 30 Comments
I have to thank Nanay’s National Bookstore (NBS) for making available decent books at affordable prices. I’m not advertising NBS but the truth is my bibliophilic generation is truly “Laking National”. When we were much younger, only NBS had carried good books in many of its branches. True there were other more specialist bookstores with [...]
Mrs Aquino gets a privilege befitting a Queen
August 3, 2009 By 35 Comments
Priestly celibacy again!
May 30, 2009 By 16 Comments
Let’s chuck that Hayden-Katrina sex vids brouhaha in the garbage can where it belongs! Here is a more “decent” media sex scandal. After seeing the news on CNN, my mother became keenly interested in the ongoing “scandal” involving media personality and Roman Catholic priest Father Alberto Cutie in Miami. The priest who has a high [...]
Falling off the moral tightrope
May 19, 2009 By 22 Comments
The Pope I like best is Kiril I. But Pope Kiril is a fictional pontiff in Morris West’s “Shoes of the Fisherman” “Shoes” was made into a movie in the late 1960s with Anthony Quinn very convincing in the lead role (Think of all the roles Quinn has played since then!) and Leo McKern as the papabile who lost [...]
Cuando te ofenden, dulce es morir!
May 5, 2009 By 30 Comments
Yesterday’s Inquirer article on the Church’s built heritage and the issue of Martin Nievera’s ‘mangling” of Lupang Hinirang is appropriately juxtaposed. After all, nothing symbolizes the colonial period of our history as the churches in each town and our continuing liberation from colonialism as the National Anthem.
Damaso Lives!
April 10, 2009 By 71 Comments
Here are some posts and pictures I snapped of his handiwork to prove it.
A “heretical” lenten reading list
April 8, 2009 By 31 Comments
Garry Wills, an ex-Jesuit seminarian, masterful political historian of Nixon and Roman Catholicism wrote a series of controversial books in recent years. These are “Papal Sin”, “St Augustine”, “John XXIII”, the apologetic and still noncorformist “Why am I Catholic?”, “What Jesus Meant”, “What Paul Meant”, “The Rosary” and “What the Gospels Meant” Common to all [...]
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