Cardinal common sense
Posted on June 28, 2010 - Filed Under Religion | Leave a Comment
Some two months after Vienna’s archbishop, Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn, accused the former Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Angelo Sodano, of blocking a probe into a sex abuse scandal that rocked Austria’s church 15 years ago, the Vatican issued an unusually public rebuke yesterday of a leading cardinal who had questioned the church’s policy of celibacy […]
Read More..>>Will Binay mar Roxas winning track record?
Posted on May 8, 2010 - Filed Under Politics, Religion | Leave a Comment
It’s probably a cultural thing in the Philippines simply because, instead of dropping a few points in survey standings after publicly admitting marital infidelity, it appears Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino vice presidential candidate Jojo Binay’s recent surge has continued . . . which has enabled him to catch up with erstwhile race leader Mar Roxas […]
Read More..>>Damaged control
Posted on April 7, 2010 - Filed Under Religion | Leave a Comment
In the past couple of weeks, the Vatican has been engulfed in a slew of adverse publicity and it’s appalling to see that crisis management is apparently not one of the strengths of those who oversee the pontiff’s media relations.
Pope Benedict XVI began this past Holy Week by suggesting in his Palm Sunday address that […]
Holy Father?
Posted on March 20, 2010 - Filed Under Religion | Leave a Comment
Pope Benedict XVI has finally rebuked Irish bishops for “grave errors of judgment” in handling sex abuse cases involving members of the Roman Catholic clergy in that country.
An open letter from the pope to Irish Catholics was read today all over Europe in the wake of a growing multi-nation sexual abuse scandal. The pope finally […]
Ye must go green and sin no more
Posted on March 21, 2008 - Filed Under Religion | Leave a Comment
The Vatican, through Monsignor Gianfranco Girotti, a close ally of Pope Benedict XVI and the head of the Apostolic Penitentiary . . . which is unlike the one in Muntinlupa but one of the Roman Curia’s main courts . . . has announced
Read More..>>The high and the Almighty
Posted on March 7, 2008 - Filed Under Religion | Leave a Comment
At my age, it’s difficult to remember exactly when I raised an eyebrow in catechism class at what appeared to be a redundancy in the Ten Commandments. After all, since God already makes it abundantly clear in the 7th that adultery is a no-no . . . even if you’re a congressman, I suppose . […]
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