Even as we bask in the glory of our more than a hundred medals won so far by Filipino athletes in the ongoing Southeast Asian Games, we’re hit by news that’s sure to put a damper on our euphoria—the disheartening results of a global assessment of students around the world, where Filipino youth ranked at or very near the bottom of 79 countries in a multicountry test of 15-year-old students in reading, mathematics and science. The
The story is told about a speaker who gave such a long and boring speech, and yet from time to time, sounds of clapping could be heard. Why? People from the audience were slapping themselves and each other just to stay awake. In today’s Gospel (Mt. 3, 1-12), John the Baptist
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