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By Asuncion David Maramba
“WHY WOULD someone with the name Asuncion [a great feast of Mary] find time to pass judgement on the Catholic Church?” (reaction to “Spiritual but not religious,” Inquirer, 4/27/13). Once in a while I do get such rebukes, friendly and not so. A prelate once commended me for a column but remarked that “the institution can’t be destroyed; many have tried but failed.” But he got me right; it’s the institution that I twit, not the wonderful works of the people of God. Probably for my ears, a priest said that the Church “is like an elephant”—that is, big and indestructible.
Posted: May 19th, 2013 in Columnists,Columns,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
By Ernesto M. Pernia
On the last day of my visit to the United States last month, I dropped by Barnes & Noble in San Francisco to check out what I could read on the long flight home the next morning. What quickly caught my attention among the new releases was “Proof of Heaven” (2012), No. 1 on the New York Times’ list of bestsellers. The intriguing title plus the professional credentials of the author got me sold on the book in no time.
Posted: May 19th, 2013 in Columnists,Columns,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
By Leonardo Leonidas
The adult posttraumatic stress disorder or PTSD is now a well-accepted condition, which was first observed among Vietnam War veterans. Now I think there is another form of PTSD—the fetal posttraumatic stress disorder.
Posted: May 18th, 2013 in Columns,Featured Columns,Featured Headline,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
By Carmelita Roxas Natividad
The article of Asuncion David Maramba, “Spiritual but not religious” (Opinion, 4/26/13), set me to thinking about what I am.
Posted: May 17th, 2013 in Columns,Featured Columns,Featured Headline,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
By Butch Hernandez
When the SMP (service management program) Teachers Camp opened last May 2, Prof. Joel Bawica of Laguna State Polytechnic University (LSPU) remarked that he felt a combination of nervousness and pride: nervousness because he and his peers would be wrestling with new and unfamiliar content, and pride because his institution would be one of the first state universities and colleges to participate in a project that aims to align higher education goals with the competencies demanded by the information technology and business process management (IT-BPM) industry.
Posted: May 17th, 2013 in Columns,Featured Columns,Featured Headline,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
By MANUEL F. ALMARIO
Last May 4, the Economist, a conservative weekly magazine in London, commented on the “Chinese dream” as articulated by China’s new president, Xi Jinping, and related it to the “American dream.”
Posted: May 16th, 2013 in Columnists,Columns,Editor's Pick,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
By Leandro “DD” Coronel
The Commission on Elections’ odd decision to leave the candidates and the whole nation hanging in suspense with its sudden adjournment as a canvassing body on the night of Election Day “to take a much-needed rest” was a public relations blunder. It again opened the electoral process, particularly the counting, to doubt and speculation.
Posted: May 15th, 2013 in Columnists,Columns,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
By Denis Murphy
You know you are getting old when you drive into a religious novitiate and care more about the men and women in the cemetery than the present novices. I realized this as we drove into the Jesuits’ Sacred Heart Novitiate in Novaliches one day.
Posted: May 12th, 2013 in Columnists,Columns,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
By Raoul Bermejo III,
Renzo Guinto
April 5 marked the beginning of the 1,000-day countdown signaling the end of the implementation period of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). But while the Philippines is still struggling with reaching MDG targets, the global community, for almost a year, has already been deliberating on the new development agenda beyond 2015. What is of concern is that there is little discussion about these global processes—which will impact our own national development in the next decades—in our own backyard.
Posted: May 12th, 2013 in Columnists,Columns,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
By Neni Sta. Romana Cruz
Heady from their respective commencement exercises, these fresh college graduates had no time to think holiday, for they knew as early as the last two months of school that a special job awaited them.
Posted: May 10th, 2013 in Columns,Featured Columns,Featured Headline,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
By Prospero E. de Vera
The 2013 senatorial elections are shaping up to be the most media-scrutinized campaign in Philippine history. Compared to previous elections, media networks have aggressively organized debates among the 33 senatorial candidates either on their own or in partnership with academic institutions and civil society organizations.
Posted: May 10th, 2013 in Columns,Featured Columns,Featured Headline,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
By Bernie V. Lopez
The Aurora-Pacific Economic and Freeport Zone (Apeco), a P3-billion 12,900-hectare economic zone in Casiguran, Quezon, was branded by the Guidon, the official newspaper of Ateneo de Manila University, as “revealing an attitude that is insidiously totalitarian and marginalizing.” Apeco was coauthored by Aurora Rep. Sonny Angara, who is running for senator, and his father, Sen. Edgardo Angara.
Posted: May 9th, 2013 in Columnists,Columns,Editor's Pick,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
