Tag Archives: Culture
Disciples of Discipline
I’m posting a letter I wrote to the Inquirer which they printed April 13, 2016. This refers to the Inquirer editorial on the fires that hit Mt. Apo (“Mt. Apo in flames,” Opinion, 4/3/16). Although the article focused on the incident of the forest fire possibly caused by some campers, it also mentioned the lack […]
Memory and History
The Inquirer’s Dec. 13 editorial ended with these words: “Impoverished indeed is a nation that does not remember, and does not ensure that its future generations will be more than just a blank slate.” The editorial advocated the writing of the stories of World War II veterans and passing them on to future generations. Indeed, […]
Faith and Culture
Here is a letter I wrote to the Inquirer and which they editors printed on May 27, 2015. I wish to commend the May 21, 2015 Inquirer editorial for expressing a positive stance towards the plight of the Rohingya boat people. Its salient remarks are worth quoting: “The latest word from Malacañang is that Asian […]
Great Expectations
Five years ago, when the Philippines had just elected our incumbent president, our people were optimistic that things in our country would change for the better. The Inquirer printed an editorial expressing that sentiment and entitled it “Great Expectations”. I wrote the paper a letter which I did not expect them to print but I […]
The Common Good and My Good
I wish to make some comments on the very interesting column of Chief Justice Artemio Panganiban that appeared in the Inquirer on October 13, 2010. It concerns the Filipino concept of justice. The ideas he presented there, however, came from a lecture given by Dean Jose Manuel I. Diokno, whom Panganiban duly quoted and acknowledged. […]
Helping the Poor
Poverty is a very complex problem. The solutions to it are not piecemeal and isolated. I wrote this comment more than a year ago. I think the suggestions are still relevant. In his column entitled “Targeting Poverty Assistance Right” (Inquirer 3/29/11) Cielito Habito raised the question “Why is it that decades of determined work and […]
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