When the sacred right of suffrage is reduced to an ordinary Contract of Sale, it destroys the essence of a truly democratic nation. As in any sale, The object of transaction is not always cash. It can be its equivalent. Offers include food, clothes, household goods, medicine, infrastructure, construction material, agricultural inputs and the provision of other services.

NAGA CITY, Nov. 3, 2009─ The priests of the Bicol region is set to celebrate the Year for priests with a regional clergy retreat that will focus on the life of St. John Mary Vianney on November 9-13 at Bethlehem in Bacacay town, Albay.

MANILA, Philippines—With politics and Pacquiao back in the limelight, a prominent urban planner has urged the government and the public to remain vigilant in the fight against climate change.

Priests not commodities, say Church leaders

Philippine Daily Inquirer, 11/02/2009

MANILA, Philippines—Philippine Catholic Church leaders Sunday rejected a $2-million demand for the release of 79-year-old Fr. Michael Sinnott who was kidnapped three weeks ago in Pagadian City, saying a ransom payment would turn priests into “commodities rather than missionaries.”

Malacañang also turned down the ransom demand of the kidnappers.

The  Phil. Alliance of Xseminarians (PAX) invites you to join other former seminarians (religious and diocesan) at www.paxseminarians.com, you will have to confirm your membership from your email inbox after submission of data for those who have existing websites or yahoogroups, kindly furnish the administrator your site for links. Thanks.

With the theme “ut unum simus” (that we may be one) Please Foundation Inc, (Palo Leyte Alumni of the Seminary) initiated the move to organize all ex-seminarians nationwide.

October 31, 2009, 2:10pm (Manila Bulletin)

MANILA, October 31, 2009 (AFP) - Typhoon Santi (international name "Mirinae") smashed into the Philippines overnight, washing away a bridge, causing power outages, and dumping fresh rain on areas still flooded after recent killer storms, officials said Saturday.
There have been no reports of fatalities but one man is missing after his hut was washed away by floodwaters, said civil defence spokesman Ernesto Torres.