Tag: Bishop Pablo Virgilio David of Kalookan

Bishop David of Kalookan said the country is "dangerously sliding back to authoritarian rule” with illegal arrests “being done all the time”

The apostles have taught us how to be positive carriers of the Good News of Christ—by inviting us to take part in his redeeming mission

“Ah, the lonely people, where do they all come from…where do they all belong?” This is what I call the negative solitude.

God is creating new opportunities to open minds and hearts. He is also creating new avenues for his Word to be heard through many new voices.

The Gospel teaches us to value self-criticism as the Church teaches us to make a consciousness examination a regular routine

What you hear in the dark you must say in the light. The Evil One loves to move about in secrecy and lies. He is an expert in bullying and intimidation.

Christianity defies the instinctive survival mode with its option for love and compassion in times of adversity.

It is a value to look back in the sense of being grateful. But it is a disvalue to look back in the sense of getting stuck, of staying undecided, uncommitted.

Jesus accused leaders of his time of corruption and of turning religion into a business and an opportunity to suck out the blood of the poor

The Holy Spirit is "the breath of justice and accountability on those pinned down on their necks by cruel, heartless and inhuman systems of governance"