“At sino ang aking kapwa?” (And who is my neighbor?) The title-question of the recent Philippine Conference on New Evangelization (PCNE) VII encapsulates the local Church’s call for “Dialogue Towards Harmony,” as the Church dedicates this year to the Year of Ecumenism, Interreligious Dialogue, and Indigenous Peoples (IPs). In the…
Comments closedMonth: February 2020
The first month of 2020 has been a trying one, beginning with raging bush fires in Australia, the assassination of a top Iranian military commander by a US drone strike, the eruption of Taal volcano, the spread of the novel coronavirus, and, on the last day of the month, Britain’s…
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The contours of fear
The spread of COVID-19 has brought into sharp relief the good, the bad, and the ugly in human nature. To start with the good: We all know the heroic story of whistleblower doctor Li Wenliang in Wuhan, who died in the course of his fight against the virus. We rely…