A recent story by website philnetizen.com that claims President Rodrigo Duterte's campaign against drugs has been blessed by Pope Francis mixes fact with fallacy.
Pope Francis did not tell Filipino priests President Rodrigo Duterte is a good leader; neither did the Roman Catholic pontiff say priests should not “enter politics.”
By Ellen T. Tordesillas Living up to his macho image of a crime buster that discriminates no one, in Tagalog, “walang sinasanto,” Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte took on the well-loved Pope Francis whose arrival in the Philippines last January caused him to be stuck in traffic he had to pee in his car. Last
By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS PRESIDENT Aquino has not yet spoken on reports, confirmed by Social Services Secretary Dinky Soliman, about the government banishing 490 homeless persons to a Batangas resort during the five-day visit of Pope Francis. But his deputy presidential spokesperson Abigail Valte said, “Wala naman hong ganoon. Parang insulto din sa bisita
By NORMAN SISON ON the second day of his memorable visit to the Philippines, Pope Francis celebrated mass for the local clergy at the Manila Cathedral. In his welcome remarks after the ceremony, Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, the Archbishop of Manila, related to the Pope how the cathedral was repeatedly destroyed by fire, earthquakes
By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS POPE Francis will be saying his masses (he will have three during his Philippine five-day visit) in English but in Rizal Park, he will start his homily with “Sumasampalataya ako.” The missalette that will be used in the Rizal Park mass will be eight pages and will contain, for the
