The dividend of our suffering
IN THE Memorial of the Passion of St. John the Baptist, celebrated on August 29, we are reminded of the ideal that we should...
Reinventing the retirement resorts
IF WE ARE serious about competing in the global market for foreign retirees, we must first accept a simple truth: you cannot sell what...
Only with God can we be truly sincere
WITH CHRIST lambasting the scribes and Pharisees of his time for their hypocrisy (cfr. Mt 23, 27-32), we are somehow reminded that the secret...
Zhang Youxia’s Purge
NOT TOO long ago, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) removed General Zhang Youxia from its Central Military Commission (CMC).
For anyone following Chinese politics,...
One more with feeling: how to brush your teeth
“TO RINSE or not to rinse?”
We chanced upon this article published in Popular Science. It is interesting reading, saying that “you might be...
Straining a gnat while swallowing a camel
THIS WAS how Christ described the self-righteous scribes and Pharisees of his time. (cfr. Mt 23, 23-26) This was a lamentation of Christ that...
Message in a bottle: The ‘Ku-an Ba Fish’ Art Project of Noel “Gene” Borja...
HOW EXCITING! Something is happening in July 2026, and you’ve got to see it! It presents the artistry of a Lungay cousin from the...
Hypocrisy, discretion and our inconsistencies
WE ARE precisely reminded of these points in that gospel episode where Christ issued a series of “Woe to you’s” to some people of...
After cancer treatment
HEAD AND neck cancer survivors often encounter serious after-effects of radiation, surgery, and chemo.
Head and neck squamous cell cancer, for example, can affect the...
Tubtob san-o ang lagsanay?
MASAMI naton makita ang mga balita tuhoy sa mga nagakadakpan nga mga indibidwal bangud sa pagduso sang ilegal nga druga.
Indi na bag-o sa...