Garrick Bercero

The Church is out of step with the Filipino people who have realized that compassion for those neglected by society is more virtuous than infantile and dogmatic obsessing over purity and virginity.

With his recent beatification, John Paul II is now just one miracle shy of a confirmed sainthood. A confirmed sainthood would mean that the Roman Catholic Church believes on faith that John Paul II is, in fact, in a place called heaven, in the presence of someone called Jesus Christ.

This is not about unborn children. This is not about the RH Bill. What we are seeing is a war of attrition against sex, fought one village at a time.

What was revealing about the CBCP's whitewashing of its continuing history of homophobia was that when the article was first published, they called on "homos to come out." The article was later revised with the more politically-correct headline of "Bishops urge homosexuals not to be afraid."

Just in time for Valentine's Day, researchers from Northwestern Medicine have discovered that the bacterium that causes the sexually transmitted infection of Gonorrhea, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, has taken up human DNA and incorporated it into its own genome.

…a stunning result—so stunning that it seems rather dubious. The claim posited here is that dilute quantities of DNA can somehow emit “DNA waves” via its natural electromagnetic field and that this signal mimics the exact DNA sequence of the source in water.

While the rape of children is unequivocally disgusting and reprehensible, the true crimes that the Church, the Vatican, and the pope are liable for are their gross negligence and their operation of a secret international legal jurisdiction that disregards local laws.

As the only non-member state with permanent observer status in the United Nations, the Holy See has consistently led the charge, despite its lack of right to vote, against initiatives towards the equal rights of women and LGBT and the reduction of AIDS cases via the distribution of condoms.

The claim that life begins at fertilization is not only provably false, it cheapens the breathtaking reality of nature.