The Joy of 40 years of Teaching
Note: I wrote this first in 2010 but have revised it several times since then. To celebrate Teacher’s Day and to incorporate my experience of teaching in the pandemic, I rewrote it again today – 5 October 2021. There are five things I am immensely grateful for in my life. These are, and not necessarily …
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The Will of God
“Faith gives us all the courage to embrace our grief and continue to love.” In times of extreme adversity and calamity, such as during this pandemic, many of us are asking these questions: Why do bad things happen to good people? If God is loving and compassionate, then why would that all powerful Being allow …
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The Unfinished Legacy of Noynoy Aquino
Co-Written with Christian Laluna ‘The worst thing the opposition can do is to claim PNoy solely as their own and to use his death as a rallying cry against fellow Filipinos of goodwill’ President Benigno Aquino III left the country a mixed, surely imperfect, but overall good legacy. We saw that he tried his best, …
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Duterte, Aquino, and the ICC
“Contrary to official claims, many of the killings by law enforcement were not justified.” One of the best foreign policy decisions that former President Benigno S. Aquino III did was to ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) ten years ago, in 2011. The Senate subsequently concurred with that ratification, thus putting …
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What the Holy Spirit makes us proclaim
“God is good! God is great! God loves us all!” This Sunday is the Solemnity of the Pentecost, which commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Virgin Mary and the Apostles in Jerusalem, as narrated in the Acts of the Apostles, and is regarded as the birth of the Church. This happens ten …
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Tony La Viña 