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[OPINION] Onions and an economy of exclusion

by CBCP News | Jan 23, 2023 | Columns | 0 |

What does it say about our society when the economy is up, but wages remain stagnant, prices are increasing, and the poor remain poor?

What the Sto. Niño tells us

by Fr. Roy Cimagala | Jan 13, 2023 | Candidly Speaking, Columns | 0 |

On this Feast of the Sto. Niño, we are reminded that irrespective of whatever status we have in this life, it is always necessary that we be like children. Why?

[REFLECTION] The Santo Niño: ‘Child wonder, our God-Hero’

by CBCP News | Jan 11, 2023 | By the Roadside, Columns | 0 |

Our group was somber, still sleepy from waking up early for the Misas de Aguinaldo. It was Christmas Day.

[REFLECTION] Christmas and the pursuit of happiness

by CBCP News | Dec 6, 2022 | By the Roadside, Columns | 0 |

It begins with a wish that unwraps a desire. The wish could be clothed in a variety of words. But the desire (happiness for ourselves and for others) appears obvious and even has a common word carrier.

[REFLECTION] Communion of saints?

by CBCP News | Oct 28, 2022 | By the Roadside, Columns | 0 |

On Sunday or solemnities we confess with the Apostles our faith in the Communion of Saints.

[REFLECTION] St. Francis of Assisi, Pope Francis and climate justice

by CBCP News | Sep 30, 2022 | By the Roadside, Columns | 0 |

As I write the ravages of Super Typhoon Karding (with the international name of “Noru”), a tropical storm

[REFLECTION] Political charity and politician’s spirituality

by CBCP News | Sep 23, 2022 | Columns | 0 |

Just a week after Fratelli Tutti was published on October 3, 2020, Cardinal Charles Maung Bo of Yangon, president of the Federation of Asian Bishops Conference, wrote a letter urging all FABC bishops to read the new encyclical where “our Asian realities are echoed in [its] urgent message.”

Dying to oneself

by CBCP News | Aug 16, 2022 | Candidly Speaking, Columns | 0 |

Tuesday of the Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time
Homily by Fr. Roy Cimagala

[OPINION] Praying hearts: In defense of the Carmelite nuns

by CBCP News | Aug 4, 2022 | Columns | 0 |

The malicious depiction of the Discalced Carmelite nuns (OCD) in Cebu playing mahjong with the late former President Cory Aquino in the movie “Maid in Malacañang” (MIM) took me down memory lane and reminded me of my visit to the monastery years back as well as my friendly conversation with the members of the religious community.

[OPINION] Burning bridges to nowhere

by CBCP News | Jul 30, 2022 | Columns | 0 |

In the explainer by the United States Energy Information Administration, natural gas is defined as “a fossil energy source that formed deep beneath the earth’s surface.”