Thursday, January 31, 2008

Pastoral Bulletin 1, s. 2008: Gambling in Legazpi

This is Legazpi's latest "issue". And the diocese's first pastoral bulletin this year. The first two paragraphs have already became moot since it turned out the "certificate of no objection" was not required of Play Planet, the gambling operator, by the PAGCOR.It was an "if then-else" requirement. If there is an existing city ordinance banning a gambling operation within 200 meters of schools and

Monday, January 28, 2008

CBCP Statement : "Reform Yourselves and Believe in the Gospel!" - in other words...

Talk about a different view. How many times have we read and heard the lament that bishops and priests no longer speak up against the ills that plague our country, particularly the wrongdoings of the current dispensation, the way bishops and priests in the past used to? In a way, this latest CBCP statement answers such lament in three ways:1. All of us are to blame for the mire of corruption our

Wednesday, January 2, 2008

Latest Update on Lafayette

Carlos Dominguez of Lafayette Philippines Inc. has been oft-quoted in press releases as saying: “this temporary legal process we are going through is actually a blessing for the Rapu Rapu project because it will resolve the financial issues the local management team has been urging LML to address.”Somehow, the truth has an uncanny way of surfacing out, like dead fishes. No matter how much you try