Navigating Troubled Waters
The ongoing China-Philippines territorial disputes in the West Philippine Sea is a defining moment for Filipinos...and the entire world.
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OPINION
Why the Miami Heat have a good shot at the title
Can the Miami Heat be the NBA’s 2023 champions?
The pursuit of justice for victim/survivors of child abuse
It is vital that duty-bearers in the community listen to children tell their stories.
Why Duterte's drug war alone could already qualify him as the Philippines' worst president
Why Duterte's drug war alone could already qualify him as the Philippines' worst president
Childhood aggression rooted in malnutrition and peer groups
Why do some children tend to behave aggressively, even violently, towards others?
The story of Easter
The true followers of Jesus are the dedicated human rights workers, those who serve the poor and committed to social justice.
The Philippines needs children’s courts
The Philippines needs a law establishing a "Children’s Court.”
The moral obligation to oppose crimes against children
Today everyone is challenged to stand for children’s rights and to protect the rights and dignity of every human being.
Women’s March for equality and justice
Jesus treated women with dignity, respect, understanding and declared them as having dignity and equality.
The best child protection laws but little church accountability
The Vatican published a new code of Canon law that is clear and specific in dealing with child abuse in the church.
The suffering caused by uncontrolled Internet
The values that you teach your children are being eroded by the grooming, seduction, violence, fake news, and sex images through the ISPs.
Buried memories of clerical sexual abuse revealed
Several bishops and priests who have been accused of child abuse are still in their church duties and positions.
US military bases are a danger to the Philippines
The growing tension in the Asia-Pacific region with the Philippines at the center makes should concern Filipinos.
Crimes against children on the Internet
There are seven priests serving today in various dioceses that fled child abuse allegations or convictions in the United States and sought r
A case of clerical child rape
The many incidents of child sexual abuse by clerics has shamed thousands of good bishops and priests who have been justly angered by the...
The troubled legacy of Pope Benedict XVI
The Vatican for years dismissed clerical child abuse claims as false, frame-ups or as vicious attacks on the Church in retaliation for the a
Why do we have Christmas?
A little child named Maria once asked, “Mama, why do we have Christmas?” Each of us should have an answer to that but many do not. Maria...
The power of women to change their world
While violence against women is on the increase worldwide, so is the pushback.
The Catholic Church must bring abusers to justice
There are thousands of foreigners that are paying large sums of money to view children being sexually abused online.
Can we prevent the extinction of species?
In 2030, it will be 9.7 billion people will be putting greater demand on the planet’s resources.
Speaking truth to power is a moral obligation
Telling and writing the truth about wrong-doing, injustice, exploitation and abuse is above all the only way to bring the rule of law and re
The Crushing Burden of Debt
Political debts are crushing and like some church leaders control people by debt. The ruling patriarch of the family dynasty holds almost ev
An Open Letter to Asian Bishops
Dear Asian Bishops, servants of the People of God. Congratulations on the Golden Jubilee of the Federation of Asian Bishops Conference....
Saboteurs of Nation
Plunderers have overrun the Philippines' democratic government. And they are absolving themselves.
The healing and causes of childhood sexual abuse
There is a dark culture of childhood suffering and no way to resolve it.
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