Remembering Beto

Thank you, Bets, for the friendship and love you showered us. Thank you for teaching us about life’s many challenges, making sure that we are able to navigate through them as painlessly as possible. And thank you for touching our lives with so much positivity and grace.

The Loss of a Good Man: A Tribute to Pope Francis and the Power of Universal Faith

The late Pope Francis was popular known as “the People’s Pope”. Or as some would want to view him, as “the Pope of the Slums”. Here in the Philippines, he was fondly called “Lolo Kiko”, He will be remembered with great affection and respect.

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Goodbye, ‘23; Hello, ‘24!

My heart goes to far-off lands: to Gaza, to Ukraine, and to other areas where hate, oppression and injustice continue to prevail. While we are lucky to enjoy  abundance and tranquility in our neck of the woods, there are brothers and sisters in these distant frontiers whose pain we must reflect on.