CBCP Pastoral Exhortation on Philippine Culture (1999)  By +Oscar V. Cruz, JCD   THIS section proffers the honest endeavor and consequent deliberate effort of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines to describe and qualify the perceived realities and key implications of the Philippine Culture. It does this by dealing…

Kiew na bilay tan kakabatan Nen Santiago Villafania   MAKAPAERMEN ya lapu labat ed piugagep dan napaawang so dalan ono karsada et nakaulan nin natiguay ira’y kiew a ngali la mansanlasus a taon ed tatken. Pilatek to ni na lasin Mark Cojuangco ya kargo to kono ta sikato si kinmerew…

Second (or nth) chances By Johanne Margarette R. Macob HAPPY Valentine! As I write this, I’m sure everyone is already sending one another their Valentine greetings. And perhaps, by the time this issue hits the streets, some are still celebrating the season of love. Me, I still believe in love….

We remember Martin Luther King Jr. By Jun Velasco                  “Hate cannot drive out hate. Only love can do that,” Martin Luther King Jr.   THERE’s this guy who is hooked in illegal activities–jueteng, fishpens, gambling, etc.– who does not see the point why we have laws. Could this be…

Restore the old Dagupan seal! By Gonzalo Duque   DAGUPAN’S respected artist Alex Villaflor, a former Jaycees Inc. president, was mumbling to us, while we were in a National Culture and Arts Commission orientation seminar last week that it was utterly wrong for the past city administration to change the…

Another Colombia? By Bebot Villar   MAY kakilala tayong politiko ang nagsasabi if we really want to stay on top the  illegal drug problem ,we need to improve our intelligence networking especially  with the Interpol so we can have the watchlist of foreign nationals engaged in drug cartel!

CBCP Pastoral Exhortation on Philippine Economy (1998) By +Oscar V. Cruz, JCD Recommendations for Confronting the Situation “Considering that the socio-economic plus political realities in the Philippines are distinctly far from the stipulations of truth, justice, and peace… it is definitely neither surprising nor incredible the CBCP Recommendations for confronting…

Serving the bosses By Johanne Margarette R. Macob WHO would forget this line: “Kayo ang boss ko.” The President couldn’t have emphasized more that his constituents are his, or the government’s, bosses. However, this still does not hold true particularly for many in remote areas, they who do not receive…

Hypocrisy By Jun Velasco   “Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as  if nothing  happened,” God’s Little devotional Book II OUR very own beloved prelate Archbishop Socrates Villegas, the CBCP president, has his way of deploring the bruising national reality…

Reconciliation thru Jayceeism By Gonzalo Duque   THANKS to the Chinese New Year, we, Dagupenos, had a grand time discovering what a wondrous thing the Children Park has become! Parang Disneyland! We should thank Mayor Belen Fernandez for it. Kung Hei Fat Choi! There’s Chinese lineage in almost all of…