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Just as you are

I need more proof.  A Chilean guy named Juan Carlos Cruz claims that Pope Francis told him during a private talk in the Vatican, to wit, "You know Juan Carlos, that does not matter. God made you like this. God loves you like...

The art of truth-scribbling

The summer of 2003 seemed to be the beginning of many things. I had returned home from a year-long exile in a distant city, one where neither the city nor I belonged to each other. I carried with me the strangeness of that...

HSMA Launches Virtus Awards 2018

The HSMA is issuing a call for entries for the forthcoming Virtus Awards—otherwise known in the industry as the Oscars of hotel sales and marketing executives. The prestigious contest was first launched in 2015 as a unique platform for hotel sales and marketing professionals...

Wedding bans

The bride wore white.  The interior, too, of St. George’s chapel where Meghan Markle and Prince Harry were wed, was awash in white, referring to the guests, who represented the cream of British society. “Cream,” of course, can be taken as shorthand for...

The era of ill feelings

Cursed the office of Chief Justice is. This assertion is a piece of recently hard-won wisdom, which should explain why I am inverting syntax a la Yoda, who is probably the wisest mentor in nine galaxies. Expressed normally, the statement would not have made...

Young and (politically) woke by Karl Patrick Wilfred M. Suyat

The path toward national development and economic prosperity requires an informed citizenry who is equipped enough to act upon the changes taking place in a society, especially one that's quickly developing such as ours. Yet the irony of the times is that majority...

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Lolo

The essay was written four days before the author succumbed to a massive stroke. This story, about his grandfather, is his last essay Before sunrise,...

A time for heroes

At the entrance of the tree-lined park, the shiny black granite wall is farthest from view. Closer is the imposing 14-meter bronze statue of...

Young and (politically) woke by Karl Patrick Wilfred M. Suyat

The path toward national development and economic prosperity requires an informed citizenry who is equipped enough to act upon the changes taking place in...

Is the “Second Christmas” at hand?

But Jaime Cardinal Sin says we are already into Kingdom Come. DECEMBER 24, 1990 — Christmas is like that “fabulous invalid,” the theater—always rumored to...