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Joel Pablo Salud

New charter: as old as tyranny itself

We believe that any unnecessary interference with the public will is not merely a tyranny but a folly Undue legal interference goes even...

The curious case of Fr. Dave

If at all there is glamor in missionary work, it is only through the stories missionaries alone can tell—should they live to share the...

The danger of illusions

As I write this, the Consultative Committee has unanimously approved the draft of the new Charter allowing Federalism “without any objection” (based on a...

Philosophy at half-past three

Early last week, a fifteen-year-old boy, one I’ve considered a son, wept after he paid me a visit early in the afternoon of Monday....

When God becomes just another joking matter

  Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will reap.—Galatians 6:7   Rarely do I give myself the chance to...

‘It feels like 1972 again’

I remember the political and social landscape of the time all too well. The previous months saw an increasingly restless activism take on line after...

Mirror Images: My interviews with two Presidents

I wouldn’t call them friends, but neither were they mere acquaintances. Presidents Benigno Simeon Cojuangco Aquino III and Rodrigo Roa Duterte will forever stand...

‘Independence: An Endangered Species’

The title of this essay once graced the maiden issue of the Philippines Graphic. It was our June 18, 1990 issue, nearly twenty years...

Steal it with a kiss

The huge hall brimmed with people, and not by the threat of any Category 5 storm. No, it was Pres. Rodrigo Roa Duterte’s first...

Beyond the chrysalis: Philippines Graphic interviews Buhay Party-list Rep. Lito Atienza

People stand in awe of stories told and retold that border on the magical: an abandoned child, in the throes of death from advanced...