Last Christmas, I attended a Mass in the Iglesia Filipina Independiente (IFI aka Aglipayan). The Mass was celebrated by a woman priest. Since the Aglipayan Mass is almost an exact copy of the Roman Mass, there was no difference save for a woman consecrating bread and wine. Aside from the nationalist flavor, the IFI Mass [...]
Religion: don’t let it ruin our spirituality
September 4, 2008 By 17 Comments
DJB expressed this interesting bit of insight in his last article Freedom of Religion is not Religion, Father: We must concede to the Pope that all religions cannot be equally true, for they implicitly and explicitly contradict one another in the most fundamental (if humorous) ways. I must say, it highlights the general intractability of [...]
Our world-renowned ocho-ocho politics
July 31, 2008 By 22 Comments
Obviously a lot of people are already viewing the President’s State of the Nation Address — through lenses that have been coloured by several years of ocho-ocho politics. The world-renowned Philippine Ocho-Ocho Politics is a colourful engine that is fueled by: (1) “information” harvested through the hearsay reporting of the Philippine Press, which is then, [...]
Voting Priests Into Office
July 19, 2008 By 6 Comments
There is something woefully wrong when old men who, by their chosen vocation, can never experience married life, engage in sexual intercourse and have children, are the first to galvanise the citizenry on issues of family planning and reproductive health. Kristine Alave’s news article yesterday, entitled “Army of priests ordered to talk to 50 lawmakers” [...]
A layman’s perspective of the Church and the mess she is in.
June 7, 2008 By Leave a Comment
A while ago I listened to a progressive-minded and brilliant young member of the Catholic clergy, Rev. Msgr. Gerardo O. Santos of the Archdiocese of Manila, talk about the role of the Church in Philippine governance at a forum organized by the Center for Philippine Futuristics at the Asian Institute of Management in Makati City. [...]
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