COLUMNISTSHUMAN FACEOverbearing cops at the school gateBy: Ma. Ceres P. Doyo - @inquirerdotnetPhilippine Daily Inquirer / 05:11 AM August 26, 2022If you were a kid on your first day of school for face-to-face classes and you experience a commotion at the school gate, see policemen exercising force and confiscating free health items and info materials that are being distributed by outsiders, how would you feel? Might you...

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 COLUMNISTSHUMAN FACENuns in the crosshairsBy: Ma. Ceres P. Doyo - @inquirerdotnetPhilippine Daily Inquirer / 05:16 AM August 19, 2022Calling himself “a bit feminist,” Pope Francis has pictured what the church would be like without the consecrated women religious: “It would be missing maternity, affection, tenderness, and a mother’s intuition.”ADVERTISEMENTHereabouts, some nuns who are ministering to needy, neglected communities...

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 COLUMNISTSHUMAN FACEFlashes of the past in ‘Katips’By: Ma. Ceres P. Doyo - @inquirerdotnetPhilippine Daily Inquirer / 05:06 AM August 12, 2022Many reviews have been written about the musical “Katips: The Movie”—some glowing, some the opposite, on how the story is told, the script, the music, the actors, the roles, what it is and what it is not, what is portrayed and what is missing, etc.ADVERTISEMENTThis piece is not a review.I...

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 COLUMNISTSHUMAN FACEMarcos movie maligns Carmelite nuns of CebuBy: Ma. Ceres P. Doyo - @inquirerdotnetPhilippine Daily Inquirer / 05:06 AM August 05, 2022My first “encounter” with the Carmelite nuns (of the Order of the Discalced Carmelites) was while reading “The Song at the Scaffold” by Gertrud von Le Fort for a review for English class. It is about a community of nuns in Compiègne, France, who were guillotined during...

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