The tripping point

Philippine Daily Inquirer/OPINION/by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo Salivating with delight, their eyes moistening and pupils constricting/dilating, detractors of President Aquino and his administration who have been wishing to see him fail since Day One are now seizing the moment to make good their ultimate yearning. They are calling for his ouster, impeachment, resignation—whatever form it will take—so that they can put in place their own agenda and have the...

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'Raining humans'

Philippine Daily Inquirer/OPINION/by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo If I may borrow a line from a song and turn it around, rainy days do not always get me down. But these past days and weeks of July have been particularly trying on the nerves, what with a bombed commercial aircraft raining humans and debris from the Ukrainian sky and onto fields of sunflowers and roofs of homes; what with bombs raining on Palestinian children who cower in fear in makeshift shelters...

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Revisiting GK's Enchanted Farm

Philippine Daily Inquirer/OPINION/by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo If you’re tired of the endless political bickering, mudslinging and other destructive maneuvers that aim to set back this country many years or stop its growth dead in the tracks, take a day off and spend time at the Gawad Kalinga (GK) Enchanted Farm in Barangay Encanto in Angat, Bulacan. I did two weekends ago. I had been there in 2011 and wrote a feature on it for the Sunday Inquirer Magazine,...

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'The grace to weep. to be ashamed'

Philippine Daily Inquirer/OPINION/by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo Pope Francis stirred our hearts once again when he addressed victims of sexual abuse committed by members of the clergy. His words could very well be for many other clerical transgressions that diminish human beings. His opening lines conveyed pure pain: “The scene where Peter sees Jesus emerge after a terrible interrogation… Peter whose eyes meet the gaze of Jesus and weeps… This scene...

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Frat torturers and their victims are weaklings

Philippine Daily Iinquirer/OPINION/by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo  Servando being dragged by his frat brods-to-be. Courtesy of ABS-CBN I’ve said it before, I say it again now. It is stupid, katangahan and kabobohan to allow your body to be beaten to a pulp by so-called brothers who had you convinced they will care for you the rest of your life. Another life, a young and willing victim, has been snuffed out because of fraternity hazing. Guillo Cesar...

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