![[OPINION] Onions and an economy of exclusion](https://cbcpnews.net/cbcpnews/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/1024px-Three_Onion_in_Peng_Chau-400x250.jpeg)
What does it say about our society when the economy is up, but wages remain stagnant, prices are increasing, and the poor remain poor?
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’](https://cbcpnews.net/cbcpnews/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/202201151-StoNiñoFeast-Cebu-SammyNavaja-CBCPNews-005-400x250.jpg)
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](https://cbcpnews.net/cbcpnews/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/VaticanMedia-400x250.jpeg)
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?](https://cbcpnews.net/cbcpnews/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/St.-Peter-Square-Vatican-Media-400x250.jpeg)
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](https://cbcpnews.net/cbcpnews/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/StFrancisofAssisi-VaticanMuseum-Via-VaticanNews-400x250.jpeg)
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](https://cbcpnews.net/cbcpnews/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/FT-400x250.jpg)
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.”
Tuesday of the Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time
Homily by Fr. Roy Cimagala
![[OPINION] Praying hearts: In defense of the Carmelite nuns](https://cbcpnews.net/cbcpnews/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/MIM-Screengrab-Youtube-400x250.jpg)
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](https://cbcpnews.net/cbcpnews/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/176550962_124356179747975_1321821946647937511_n-400x250.jpeg)
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.”
In the Philippines a mountain is often associated with rebellion.
“Now the Spirit is Lord. And where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom” (2 Cor 3:17)