Social Justice

The familiarity of the Jesus story has anesthetized us from what is at the heart of the ritual. Millions of men, women, and children are moving around a wooden statue of a bloodied victim of torture, capital punishment, and God-sanctioned human sacrifice. The Black Nazarene is an ironic pornographic celebration of violence—the overt violence of the past and the more subtle violence of the present.

Avoiding the unimpressive arguments for the existence of the specific Catholic flavor of Yahweh, let us, like millions of Filipinos, simply take this on faith. How would the much-desired fully-realized Catholic Nation of the Philippines look?

Mother Teresa was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a...

Such beauty compels some people to conclude that there must be an Intelligent Designer, a Loving Creator who creates and sustains life. However, naturalists argue that it is the sun which is the ultimate sustainer of all life on earth.

I present to you ten commonly used fallacies and what to do when they are used against you in logical debate.

That the Philippine public is scientifically illiterate is one disheartening thing. That some of our reputable newspapers publish articles that peddle pseudoscience and baloney is another. However, the fact that our government does not make decisions based on scientifically sound judgment is the most tragic of all.

Following the way of the Lord, we opt to be a Church of the Poor which demands evangelical poverty of us...

"Alternative medicine" is a load of bull.

Last night, Archbishop Luis Tagle ordered all priests, rectors, and chaplains in Manila to hold a second collection for the victims...