Saying 'no' to 'Darkness Descending'

Philippine Daily Inquirer/FEATURES/by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo She deserves a room of her own, this woman who resisted the coming of darkness during the martial law years and became an inspiration in that time of untruth, lawlessness and injustice. Justice Cecilia Muñoz Palma already has a government building and a public school named after her, but the eponymous museum opened last week at the mezzanine floor of the Quezon City Hall complex may yet...

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Confessions

Philippine Daily Inquirer/OPINION/by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo In the hot seat at the Meet Inquirer Multimedia forum last week was the president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines, Archbishop Socrates Villegas of the Archdiocese of Lingayen-Dagupan in Pangasinan. The discussion revolved around the extrajudicial killings (EJKs) and the Duterte administration’s move to revive the death penalty. In other words, about killings in...

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Common ground for Church and Du30?

Philippine Daily Inquirer/OPINION/by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo Photo by Lyn Rillon At the Meet the Inquirer multimedia forum last Monday, the guest in the hot seat was the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines president, Archbishop Socrates Villegas of the Lingayen-Dagupan archdiocese. The forum focused on the strongly worded CBCP pastoral letter on the drug killings that was read Feb. 5 in parishes that received it on time. In the backdrop...

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'Buwan at Baril': déjà vu.

Philippine Daily Inquirer/OPINION/by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo Was “Buwan at Baril sa Eb major” difficult to watch? No and yes. No, because everything was so clear and real to me—the stories, the characters, the acting, the emotions, the sounds, the faces, the voices, the words spoken and unspoken. I couldn’t ask for more. Yes, because a tsunami of memories came surging at me with the force of 14 years under a cruel dictatorship. Yes because in...

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Beauty and the bees

Philippine Daily Inquirer/OPINION/by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo When, in the past, many beauty pageant contestants almost always mentioned care for the environment as their advocacy, this time there was none of that. Not in the 65th Miss Universe pageant held in the Philippines last week, which was hard to beat in its pomp and pageantry. Held here for the third time, the pageant put the Philippines on the world’s tourism map as intended, with the beautiful...

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