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Fr. Melvin Castro, an official of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP), argues that the RH bill is not...

With millions of Filipinos living below poverty line and children dying of malnutrition and disease, it's shocking to read news stories like this: Lay Catholic group raises P2.7 million to buy vehicles for bishops

The underlying idea being fought over via church bulletin boards, bumper stickers, and Facebook walls is the seemingly novel concept of freedom. In this issue, the CBCP and its cohorts seem unaware that the concept of free expression is meaningless if it were meant only to protect the agreeable but not the offensive.

We have seen riskier art with religious images at the CCP and other galleries; people complained, but never at a scale such as this. Why? Because back then only the artist gains from the attention.

I'm ambivalent about Miriam's RH sponsorship speech. As an RH advocate, I'm happy. Her speech was effective in terms of increasing the chances of the RH Bill passing. But as an advocate of secularism, I'm disappointed.

Democracy and with it, freedom of choice, are among the best moral ideas that we have developed, a “universal value” of...

Every night, millions of poor Filipinos pray that when they wake up, they'd no longer be poor. Answering these prayers would...

Apparently Willie Revillame is giving away P100,000. That's a lot of money, and in the right hands it could do a...

Our stance on the reproductive health bill debate stems from secularism. Our stance in this PCSO issue is likewise rooted in secularism. The Philippine Constitution guarantees that the separation of church and state shall be inviolable but when the bishops actively solicit funding from our government and our government hands them that money, Father, the secularism of our country has undoubtedly been violated.