Duterte, The Pacifist, and The Just War Tradition
“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth a war, is …
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Habemus Papam, et non ex Philippines
“We have a Pope!…and (he is) not from the Philippines.” Too bad, Cardinal Luis Tagle did not make it, no matter how hard the Filipinos hoped and prayed. After Pope …
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‘God must really love the Filipinos’
Nowadays, it seems like the Roman Catholic Church is getting a long-overdue media boost, what with the recent canonisation of new Filipino saint Pedro Calungsod and the elevation to Cardinal …
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Reproductive Healthcare and Religious Despotism
The last time I checked, the Philippines was not subject to Sharia Law. Yet, it sure feels that way with the Catholic Church pushing its weight all over the place …
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Pedro Calungsod – yet another Filipino saint Filipinos can look to for miracles
I read recently that we have another Filipino saint queued for canonisation by the Roman Catholic officialdom in the Vatican. Blessed Pedro Calungsod is a 17th Century Visayan martyr whose …
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