Does Holy Week mean all year round is unholy? By Jun Velasco “If anyone among you thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this one’s religion is useless.”—James 1:26 HOLY Week this week. Does this mean all-year-round is “unholy?” We’re…
Shun politics during Holy week! By Gonzalo Duque DURING the Holy Week, we were kept busy viewing religious and spiritual movies at home. Which was just as well; it was fun and rewarding. One of these is “Son of God.” It’s a great film, we ask you to buy…
Playing with Fire
Bradley made Pacquiao the better fighter By Al S. Mendoza MANNY Pacquiao had just discarded his cloak of monotonous machinegun mean streak. Whereas before, he had this penchant to savage his opponent at every opportunity; this time, he did things in a surgical, methodical, manner. Whereas before, almost from…
General Admission
Everyone happy! By Bebot Villar DURING Lenten period, families rush to their hometowns in the provinces for the opportunity to hold their family reunions and join religious activities while others are just too happy to stay put and have their villages to themselves. Siyempre, may mga mayayaman naman who…
Deretsahan
“Father Into Your Hands I Commend My Spirit.” (Luke 23:46) By +Oscar V. Cruz, JCD EVEN Jesus died – after proclaiming He was the Son of God, He was the Redeemer of mankind, He was the Savior of the world. Even Jesus died – after preaching about God and…
Viewpoints
Pacquiao’s ‘killing instinct’ vanishing? By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. WE watched how our boxing icon Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao pummelled the flamboyant black American pug Timothy Bradley to recapture the World Boxing Organization (WBO) welterweight belt. He punished him good but was unable to knock him down but there’s no doubt…
Sports Eye
The ‘Holy’ in the “Holy Week” By Johanne Margarette R. Macob WHEN I started going to school, I also started going to churches. Our family heard mass regularly. And if the some things had not changed, we would already be planning which churches to visit this Lenten week by now…
Young Roots
Tapping the power of the sun By Crispin C. Maslog* IT is good to hear that the Philippines will soon have its largest micro-grid solar power plant so far in Palawan which will generate 1.3 megawatts of clean, renewable energy. Built by Singapore-based WEnergy, the plant will cost P325…
Eureka!
Who pocketed the P10-M? By Ermin Garcia Jr. ATTY. Ope Reyna, the hermano mayor of the 2013 Dagupan Fiesta has shown what transparency and accountability mean in real terms. The terminal report that his committee caused to be published in The PUNCH last week was detailed enough for everyone…
Punchline
Guv’nor is thrilled by teacher’s visit By Jun Velasco “All who know well how to obey will know also how to rule,” Flavius YOU and us are sure of one thing today, April 13, 2014. The streets will be empty, that is, most people would be in their…




