A communion ban imposed by Ozamis Archbishop Jesus Dosado on Catholic politicians pushing for abortion may be adopted by all bishops across the country.
Roman Catholic politicians who support a proposed law should no longer receive communion, Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Oscar Cruz said on Monday.
He said Dosado’s policy, which stopped short of saying the politicians should face formal excommunication, may be implemented in other dioceses if bishops deem it necessary.
May I invite you to take a look at the topic on the right hand column of this blog: The Rising Price of Gas in…
by Raymond Africa
Malaya
The police yesterday confirmed that the family of ABS-CBN news anchor Ces Drilon paid P5 million ransom to a bandit group that held her, two cameramen, and a professor for 10 days in Sulu.
ABS-CBN announced that Ces Crilon , her cameraman Jimmy Encarnacion and Prof. Octavio Dinampo have been freed by their captors. They are now in the…
I’m a great fan Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt. The July issue of Vanity Fair features her in an article by Rich Cohen. I’m linking full article here.
It’s an established fact. Some women can’t stand being pregnant, getting big and bloated, and hauling around a giant stomach, and some women, for reasons probably understood by Darwin, love it. That Angelina Jolie is one of the latter can be seen in any of the thousands of pictures of the actress—who was, after all, impregnated by Brad Pitt, which is like being impregnated by a future man or a star child—that began to proliferate in the celebrity weeklies and supermarket tabloids in the spring of 2008, by which time Jolie, who is carrying twins, had bellied out like a sail.
This is the latest update from Harry Roque on former Agriculture Undersecretary Jocjoc Bolante’s bid for political asylum in the United States to avoid acountability for the more than P700 million fertilizer fund that was diverted to the election campaign of Gloria Arroyo in 2004.
Joc-Joc Bolante’s Petition to seek Asylum in the United States has been denied twice: first, by the Chicago Immigration Court, and second, by the Board of Immigration Appeals.
Habang inaaliw tayo dito sa Manila ni GSIS Chairman Winston Garcia tungkol sa kanyang krusada laban sa Meralco, namimilipit ang lahat sa walang tigil na pagtaas ng gasolina at lahat na bilihin.
Sa report ng Inquirer, umaabot na sa P51 ang kilo ng bigas ng Mindanao. At jhindi lang presyo ng bigas ang tumataas. Pati na rin karne at ibang pagkain. Kung anim ang anak mo, paano mo mabubuhay ang mga yun sa minimum wage na P400 isang araw?
This article by Doug Copp, rescue chief and disaster manager of the American Rescue International, is again going the rounds of the internet following the earthquake in China that has claimed the lives of more than 40,000 people.
Copp says “when buildings collapse, the weight of the ceilings falling upon the objects or furniture inside crushes these objects, leaving a space or void next to them. This space is what I call the ‘triangle of life’. The larger the object, the stronger, the less it will compact. The less the object compacts, the larger the void, the greater the probability that the person who is using this void for safety will not be injured. The next time you watch collapsed buildings, on television, count the ‘triangles’ you see formed. They
are everywhere. It is the most common shape, you will see, in a
collapsed building.”
Gloria is in Panglao, Bohol today, one of the provinces that she posted an unbelievable win in the 2004 elections. She has announced building an international airport there. Read this piece on the folly of that project.
By Ernesto M. Pernia
Philippine Daily Inquirer
International airports are a humdrum topic until one realizes that we have too many of them, yet we do not have enough food, power, water and other basic needs. The subject comes to mind because another international airport is to break ground this month in Panglao Island, Bohol. President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo herself is scheduled to preside over the ceremony.
The project was first conceptualized more than 20 years back when hardly anyone even dreamed that the island would become a world-renowned tourist attraction. With the typical on-again, off-again manner of government planning, not too many people paid attention to the project. Of late, however, it’s been rushed supposedly so that it can be completed in two years, before the end of the President’s and the provincial governor’s term in 2010.