I’m reproducing Fr. James Reuter, SJ’s column that appeared in today’s Philippine Star. The basis of the column was his homily during the requiem Mass for my grandmother last Thursday. Our family asked him to deliver the homily as he is one of the few people still around who knew my grandmother. The slaughter of [...]
April 28, 1949
The Republican Attack on Senate Filibusters Is Backfiring was my Arab News column for yesterday.
A re-interment – INQ7.net is my column for today. The good folks at PCIJ have blogged about the Philippine e-library in INSIDE PCIJ: Stories behind our stories » Philippine e-Library. Seems its useless unless you subscribe, and subscriptions are expensive. Tales of the Unlawyer blogs about tingi, buying stuff in tiny quantities, e.g. sacheted everything [...]
Unam Sanctum: Holy Father officially in the digital age has a hilarious sendoff of spam -Vatican style!
Via ProfessorBainbridge.com comes Juicy Studio: Readability Test, in which you can type in the url of your blog (or any website) and find out how it does in terms of a couple of readability tests. Results for my blog: Total sentences: 387 Total words: 2,727 Average words per Sentence: 7.05 Words with 1 Syllable: 1,693 [...]
Finding an Alternative Explanation for Anti-Japanese Protests Manuel L. Quezon III  ALTERNATIVE means are what I’ve had to find, when it comes to figuring out the recent epidemic of popular protests taking place in China. The protests are aimed against Japan, apparently provoked by yet another incident of Japanese textbooks downplaying the severity of [...]
Victory for orthodoxy – INQ7.net is my PDI column for today. Also interesting is Benedict XVI – INQ7.net, the PDI editorial for today. Finding an Alternative Explanation for Anti-Japanese Protests is my Arab News column for today; in it, I make reference to two blogs. First, that of Andrés Gentry at Andrés Gentry, with a [...]
In Papal oath: Information From Answers.com you can read the papal oath, put in place supposedly by St. Agatho, in AD 681 which was taken by new popes upon their coronation: I vow to change nothing of the received Tradition, and nothing thereof I have found before me guarded by my God-pleasing predecessors, to encroach [...]
New pope, new blog style. The confusion about the smoke; the added confusion about the bells; the definitive tolling of the great bell; and the announcement of the name of the new pope; prophetic of things to come? So what now of the much talked about St. Malachy’s prophecy, describing this pope as “The Glory [...]
