The Pulse Asia survey for the first week of December 2009 results: Aquino (45%), Villar (23%), Estrada (19%), and Teodoro (5%). (balita.ph)
Estrada and Villar has the same message: they appeal to the poor, the masa. Thus, we expect that their ratings will roughly be the same: 23% vs 19%.
Aquino and Teodoro has a lopsided discrepancy: [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Catholic Church’
2 Jan
Gibo Teodoro’s presidential campaign: the problem of product positioning
29 Jan
Pierre Duhem: How the Catholic Church Destroyed Astrology and Prepared the Way for Modern Science
In the system which Maimonides sets forth we see, so to speak, the culmination of all the ideas whose development has been traced in this chapter.
We find there, first of all, the affirmation of the principle that Aristotle had already formulated with such clarity: The various parts of the universe is interconnected by a rigorous [...]
4 Jan
Mangyans of Mindoro: A Christmas Story
I. Kuya Philip
Months ago Kuya Philip barged into my room in the Ionosphere building armed with a mop.
“Hi, Kuya,” I said. “Is Kuya Randy not around?”
“No,” he said. “I was asked to take his place for today.” And he began to mop the floor. This was unusual. Kuya Philip normally fabricates rain gauges and DOAS [...]
21 Dec
Gregor Mendel the Augustinian Abbot
We know Gregor Mendel as the Austrian scientist who cross-bred pea plants to determine the law of how genetic traits of the parents, such as tall and short, are passed on to their offsprings. But he is not only the Father of Heredity. As a parish priest ordained in 1847, he was also the father [...]
4 Dec
Rebuilding Sodom and Gomorrah: UN Draft Declaration on Non-Discrimination of Homosexuality
Parliamentary questions
4 December 2008
H-1009/08
ORAL QUESTION for Question Time at the part-session in January 2009 pursuant to Rule 109 of the Rules of Procedure by Dimitrios Papadimoulis to the Council
Subject: EU Presidency’s draft declaration in the UN on the decriminalisation of homosexuality
On 10 December 2008, the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the [...]
26 Nov
Book Review: “Exorcism: Encounters with the Paranormal and the Occult”
The Ateneo Catechetical Instruction League (ACIL) asked me to give a talk this afternoon on the paranormal and the occult. I have given the same talk last year when I was still a facilitator of ACIL-Escopa, about a week after Fr. Jose Francisco C. Syquia, Director of the Archdiocese of Manila Office of Exorcism, [...]
22 Nov
Back to the Future in 1968: Rahner on Humanae Vitae and the Present Ateneo Dissent
In September 1968 issue of the America magazine, Cardinal Avery Dulles, S.J. summarized the views of his fellow Jesuit, Karl Rahner S.J., published in Stimmen der Zeit, on the then recently published encyclical of Pope Paul VI, Humanae Vitae. The summary is long, but two points struck me:
In the first place, Rahner points out that [...]
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