RH Bill

After emotions have sizzled down a bit from all the excitement about excommunication and Damaso, one sobers up to the proposed budget for family planning: P280 million for pills, P100 million for injectibles, and P8 million for condom for a total of P400 million.

Here in the Philippines, the Catholic Church considers civil disobedience an option in its conflict with the government on the use...

"Your teachings go against the grain of biology...Excommunicate? Go ahead. My God understands my biological needs because I am His creation."

I write primarily for two reasons: To present accurate data to a topic, and to call out poorly made arguments, and those who make them. Today, you get to see me do both.

Out on a P6,000 bail, Carlos Celdran is facing charges on "offending religious feelings" under Article 133 of the Revised Penal...

I sympathize with the folk who find Carlos Celdran’s actions offensive and unreasonable. But let me suggest, too, that there’s enough unreasonableness to go around, and maybe it didn’t start with Carlos shouting in Manila Cathedral.

med·dle: to interest oneself in what is not one's concern : interfere without right or propriety

A few days ago the CBCP issued a statement exhorting the proposed bills on sex education and reproductive health, saying that "the foundation of the moral society is a central religious truth" and that "to disregard moral and religious truths...is to be defenseless to the onslaught of corruption."

Desmond Tutu's retiring, Redford White's passed away, and we've been rocked by three earthquakes that the local news agencies seem to have not noticed. Of course, it's not all dull and dreary as we serve up another batch of weekly news updates!