Philippine Commentary

On one side of all debates about Separation of Church and State in the Philippines, the most quoted provision of the 1987 Philippine Constit...

The title may puzzle some readers since the present controversy does not involve any Church or religious  issue as such. Instead it has to d...

The 1987 Constitution's Bill of Rights  upholds Freedom of Religion 1987 Article III Section 5. (1) No law shall be made respecting an ...

Just a little over a month after Republic Act No. 9710, otherwise known as the Magna Carta of Women, has been approved, the Catholic Church ...

Science and religion is a big issue in the United States, and increasingly in other developed countries such as Australia, Canada and the UK...

This essay has also been posted at Filipino Voices today. [R-18: Please do not touch me if for some reason you find a discussion of wooden...

Catholic Bishop of Bacolod, Vicente Navarra claims that divine intervention is what saved Ces Drilon from the Abu Sayyaf kidnappers who hel...

STATISTICS show that about a third of humanity adheres to Christianity (2.1 billion), next comes Islam with 1.5 billion adherents. A surpri...

A LETTER from ALBERT EINSTEIN to the philosopher ERIC GUTKIND in 1954 has been sold at auction in London for $404,000 to a private collecto...

OR: Why Rep. Danilo Suarez Is An Ignorant Hick From the Land of Coconuts I think that government officials who don't understand Separati...

How it feels like 1971! MANUEL L. QUEZON III has been right all along about how PGMA cannot possibly step down peacefully and Constitutiona...

You can listen to a reading of Benedict at Regensberg in this post. Speaking in a newly released audio tape to "the intelligent ones...

The telecommunications infrastructure of the Philippines is a favorite target of the New People's Army. The ubiquitous cell sites that ...

The Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) says the strangest and most paradoxical things about Pope Benedict's Regensb...

ROMAN CATHOLIC POPE BENEDICT XVI is at the center of a growing global controversy for his recent remarks about Mohammed and Islam at the Un...