Friday, June 23, 2017
Friday, June 23, 2017
Fr. Carmelo O. Diola Spaces of Hope It is difficult to contain my joy. When I first met some Tokhang surrenderers of Barangay Subangdako in Mandaue City, they were unkempt and could not even look you in the eye, their eyes seemingly always downcast. They just mumbled their answers, in one to three incoherent […]
Spaces of Hope Fr. Carmelo O. Diola “You need a different ticket to sit over there,” the plainclothes Swiss guard told me. A moment before, I had asked him if I may sit close enough to the altar for the Saturday catechism for volunteers and workers of mercy in front of St. Peter’s Basilica. […]
Continue reading …Fr. Carmelo O. Diola Spaces of Hope Mayor Rodrigo Duterte won the presidency because of his anti-drug agenda. 16 million deeply frustrated Filipinos chose him to end the woes and sufferings brought about by the monster drug menace. When imprisoned drug lords continue to operate with impunity inside supposedly maximum security jails, an extraordinary […]
Continue reading …Fr. Carmelo O. Diola Spaces of Hope I WAS waiting inside a tourist bus when it fluttered in unannounced and unobtrusive, finally perching precariously on the window pane immediately to my left. I took a closer look—the butterfly had golden wings! More precisely, its wingtips were black, followed by a layer of white, then […]
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