Recent Editorial

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  Phase Two of the pontificate now underway

  Dec 16, 2019

  Pope Francis reaches new and significant milestones in the next several days. He celebrated the 50th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood on Dec 13.

  
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  Saving the planet and ourselves

  Dec 16, 2019

  As I write this, monster Typhoon Kammuri is ravaging the Bicol region in the central Philippines. It is packing winds of 209kph and is more ferocious than the previous typhoons to hit that part of this nation’s archipelago.

  
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  Spirituality be part of public sphere

  Nov 29, 2019

  The heady realm of philosophy got special accolades in November when the preeminent Canadian philosopher, Charles Taylor, won the Ratzinger Prize.

  
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  Indonesia’s Ahok hits the comeback trail

  Nov 29, 2019

  Jakarta’s former Christian governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama has returned to public office in Indonesia two years after being ousted and convicted on blasphemy charges.

  
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  End arms race for nuke-free world

  Nov 29, 2019

  Pope Francis called for sustained efforts to end the resource-wasting arms race to create a world free of nuclear weapons as he visited the nuclear-bombed Japanese city of Nagasaki.

  
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  Pope visits a majority Buddhist country

  Nov 22, 2019

  Pope Francis just visited “the land of interreligious dialogue” as “a pilgrim of peace”.

  
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  Unity and hope from the Amazon synod must speak louder than fear

  Nov 15, 2019

  The synod called for strengthening “a culture of dialogue, reciprocal listening, spiritual discernment, consensus and communion” and said that “it is not possible to be the church without recognizing an effective exercise of the sensus fidei of the whole people of God.”

  
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  Come out of your minority complex

  Nov 15, 2019

  In Asia, and as a matter of fact in all the countries in the world today, the population is multi-religious. Some Islamic countries, especially in the Middle East, may have a state religion, namely Islam.

  
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  Dialogue begins with empathy, not contempt

  Nov 15, 2019

  Christians who preach the Gospel must see people who do not know Christ as children of God and not as nonbelievers worthy of hostility and contempt, Pope Francis said.

  
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  From Synodality to a creative pastoral approach

  Nov 10, 2019

  Journalists and commentators have been spilling a lot of ink over the recently ended “Amazon Synod.” And, naturally, they are mostly focusing on these three items that emerged from the Oct 6-27 gathering.