Tag: Lights & Shadows

Lights & Shadows: Assessing the First Year of the Administration of Ferdinand Marcos Jr Through the Lens of Catholic Social Principles

Lights & Shadows: Assessing the First Year of the Administration of Ferdinand Marcos Jr Through the Lens of Catholic Social Principles

Published June 29, 2023 by JJCICSI

More than three decades after his father was overthrown in a historic “people power” revolution, Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., son and namesake of the late dictator, was elected president of the Philippines by a landslide in May 2022. Marcos Jr ran on a platform of “unity” in a country where…

The State of the Nation in the First Half of 2021 from the Lens of Catholic Social Teaching

Published July 24, 2021 by JJCICSI

Against so many odds in 2020, the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte was buoyed by the unprecedented popularity of the chief executive, who now enters his last year in office. He may leave his office as the most-positively evaluated president: despite the widely criticized government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic,…