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The spectacular defeats of other Duterte candidates

The Sara kiss of death was especially seen in the city of Manila and in Batangas. She deliberately made negative campaigning for the congressmen who were potential prosecutors in her forthcoming impeachment trial in the senate. These congressmen were among the most vocal in the House Quadcomm hearings. Representative Joel Chua (Manila, 3rd district) headed the House committee on good governance that conducted seven hearings on Sara’s red-flagged use of confidential funds.

The spectacular defeats of other Duterte candidates

Pope Leo XIV’s migrant roots

As a pope of the contemporary world, one issue he will address will be migration, a preferential apostolate of the Catholic Church. Migrants migrate to escape conditions of poverty, religious and political persecution, and wars. Migration is never a crime. What will his papacy do to embrace the humanity of migrants and refugees? As a son of migrants and of Afro-Creole culture, Leo XIV is a groundbreaking pope.

Pope Leo XIV’s  migrant roots

A conclave is not a Miss Universe contest

Filipinos should pray and hope for a cardinal not because he is Filipino but because he can best lead the Catholic Church in the direction it is discerned to go…One who can guide the church on faith and morals, and can successfully meld the spiritual and political role of the pope who is also the head of a sovereign state.

A conclave is not a Miss Universe contest

The news is true when DDS say it is fake

The DDS have become clones of Duterte’s grandiose narcissism and congenital lying, a minority that is noisy, yet a minority nevertheless. They may not be a danger to immediate destabilization; they are a danger to truth telling. Kill the truth and the nation dies.

The news is true when DDS say it is fake

The women in Duterte’s ICC life

Duterte would rather see women as subjects of his male domination.The reality has changed overnight. As fate would have it, all three judges sitting for his pre-trial in the International Criminal Court are women.

The women in Duterte’s ICC life