Society

Based on true events, "Paalam, Soledad" follows the struggles of Sister Soledad with her faith and her principles amidst the realities...

Given the above rule as to what an editorial should be, is it true that every person working for your paper (or editorial team) is a proud Catholic?

In case you haven't heard, there have been people protesting in New York since the 17th of September. (Yes, they've been there for more than a month now.)

Alternative medicine doesn’t work, but a lot of people still believe in it. Jobs’ example will continue to be one of the best and most visible cases you can pit against mumbo-jumbo meds.

A vegan once asked me why, in spite of my keen awareness of animal suffering, I continue to eat them. While I can justify eating fish and seafood, at least to myself, I regret to say that such awareness never caused me to totally give up meat, including farmed meat. What it did, however, was to make me grow cynical of man's morality and compassion.

Because for these anti-RH conservative Catholics, protecting human lives is not as important as respecting God.

My dear sisters, I open my eyes and see that the world is poorer. There are large gaps between exist between the rich and the poor and the gap is ever-widening. Apart from this, the world is at war, led by a nation which reacted to the aggression of a few by punishing whole peoples.

In society, Church morality and secular morality often come into conflict with each other because their standards, and especially their underlying premises which dictate these standards, are as different as night and day.

Because vivisection is used as the standard for medical testing today, we have wasted a lot of money, time, animal lives and human lives.