Celebrating despite our doubts
For as democracies around the globe today falter, we can draw strength from our country’s shining moment in the past and let it shed light on the directions we must take.
For as democracies around the globe today falter, we can draw strength from our country’s shining moment in the past and let it shed light on the directions we must take.
Every year, on January 9, hundreds of thousands of mostly barefoot Roman Catholic devotees wearing maroon shirts join in pulling and pushing a carriage of the life-sized wooden icon of Jesus Christ carrying the cross.
Like Cardinal Advincula’s recognition of the “martyrdom” of Gomburza, such a vigorous reaffirmation of Church teaching on politics by the shepherds, pastors and consecrated women of the Philippine church could yet be another watershed moment for Filipinos.