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Posted on March 15, 2010 - Filed Under Opinion, Viewpoints | Leave a Comment
“BEING WARNED IS BEING FOREWARNED”
By +Oscar V. Cruz JCD
For a start, let it be herein clearly stated that this expression of sincere concern and manifestation of reservation on the forthcoming 10 May 2010 National Elections, are first and foremost meant for the attention and consideration of the common people in general, the ordinary young people [...]
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Posted on March 8, 2010 - Filed Under Opinion, Viewpoints | Leave a Comment
EMERITUS
By +Oscar V. Cruz JCD
Time and again, the cryptic word “Emeritus” is heard, in and out of the Ecclesiastical Circle – such as the bishop or Archbishop “Emeritus” of this and that Diocese or Archdiocese, respectively. Considering the enigmatic terminology, it is understandable that the question asked here and there is precisely what does it [...]
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Posted on March 1, 2010 - Filed Under Opinion, Viewpoints | Leave a Comment
Boy Mayor Ambushed 4:20 AM, 28 February 2010, R.I.P
By +Oscar V. Cruz JCD
There was this man who was once involved in the devious and odious gambling called “jueteng”. It is not a secret that the eventual and constant “winners” from the said racket have been always the same: The influential gambling lords. The crooked public [...]
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Posted on February 22, 2010 - Filed Under Opinion, Viewpoints | Leave a Comment
“Separation of Church and State”
By +Oscar V. Cruz JCD
It is both funny and strange when the standard battle cry of “Separation of Church and State” is fervently and loudly invoked when certain individuals in tenure of a public office feel frustrated in their ethically questionable options or meet rejection of their morally bankrupt projects. This [...]
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Posted on February 15, 2010 - Filed Under Opinion, Viewpoints | Leave a Comment
Vulgar. Lewd. Gross.
By +Oscar V. Cruz JCD
Happy Valentine! Short time! Free condoms!
How long could supposedly high public officials in this government go? How juvenile could such seemingly responsible adults be? To what extent would they entice young people to be promiscuous unlimited? How far are they willing to go precisely to promote sexually transmitted diseases?
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Posted on February 8, 2010 - Filed Under Opinion, Viewpoints | Leave a Comment
“Do not panic!”
By +Oscar V. Cruz JCD
The often cited valiant yet actually disturbing, fearless but precisely distressing yell, is in fact three-tiered: “Do not panic! Relax lang! Kayang-kaya ito!” Given the saddening recent past, the now gloomy existing present and the forthcoming uncertain days of the socio-economic situation and political scenery of the Philippines, the [...]
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Posted on February 1, 2010 - Filed Under Opinion, Viewpoints | Leave a Comment
2010 honest, orderly and peaceful elections ( H.O.P.E. )
By +Oscar V. Cruz JCD
It is definitely a wide-open secret in this Country that practically all elections have been marred by more than one big disconcerting events, by many serious doubts and questions that assail electoral credibility and the pacified acceptability of de facto elections. The latest [...]
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Posted on January 25, 2010 - Filed Under Opinion, Viewpoints | Leave a Comment
Ten-year marriage contract
By +Oscar V. Cruz JCD
Now that this matter of a proposed temporary marriage contract has somehow subsided in excited contemplation and spirited discussion, it might be but proper and just to look into the matter with more calm and prudence – in the light of on the ground concrete and practical realities. Truth [...]
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Posted on January 22, 2010 - Filed Under Opinion, Viewpoints | Leave a Comment
Open letter to the Bishops and Priests – 2
IN their open letter this January 2010 addressed to the Bishops, Priests and religious in the Philippines by a group of Filipino Lay Catholics – which is some kind of a first venture in recent local Church history – the writers forwarded their three primary concerns to [...]
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Posted on January 18, 2010 - Filed Under Opinion, Viewpoints | Leave a Comment
Open Letter to the Bishops and Priests – 1
By +Oscar V. Cruz JCD
It has been reported recently and understandably – that a group Filipino lay Catholics have prepared a revealing open, ardent and urgent letter specifically addressed to the Bishops and Priests of the Philippines, inclusive of the Men and Women Religious. Its contents are [...]
