Cardinal Tagle’s transfer to Rome leaves the Philippine Church without a resident cardinal in place. Cardinal Ricardo Vidal of Cebu is gone, Cardinal Gaudencio Rosales of Manila and Cardinal Orlando Quevedo of Cotabato are both retired. Filipino Catholics had hoped the last few consistories would include a new cardinal-archbishop for Cebu and another for Mindanao, but so far no one has made the grade.
Whatever the real score is, DU30 must clarify what Robredo can and cannot do. This is the only way to prevent any overlapping of functions between Robredo and ICAD chair Aaron Aquino.
President Rodrigo Duterte’s “true believers” believe he is in the very pink of health and has no cause to worry about prematurely leaving his office.
A visiting foreign journalist asked me the other day if it was necessary for President Rodrigo Duterte to choose the Speaker of the House of Representatives on behalf of its newly elected members.
The first time it was mooted that Rep. Paolo Duterte, the President’s son, could succeed former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo as the next Speaker of the House of Representatives, President Rodrigo Duterte said he would have to resign, if anything like that happened.