(Karl Gaspar’s foreword to the book, “Integral Ecology Ministry: Doing Ecological Theology and Advocacy in Light of Laudato Si’” written by Fr. Reynaldo D. Raluto. The book was launched on 19 September 2025 in Libona, Bukidnon, on the 25th anniversary of
(This response from the community by Redemptorist Brother Karl Gaspar was read by his sister, Helen, at the launch of the book, “Frontliners for Human Rights: FLAG of the People @50,” at the Ateneo de Davao University on 22 September
BOOK REVIEWRansomed By Love: The unfinished journey of a happy changemaker’s life Author: Tony La ViñaPublisher: Southern Voices Printing Press, 2024 Davao City book launch on March 11, 2024 at the Ateneo de Davao University There was a boy, A very strange
FILM REVIEW: Alipato at Muog (Flying Embers and a Fortress)Director /cinematographer / editor – JL BurgosWritten by JL Burgos, Bernardine de BelenOriginal Music Score – Bong RamiloSound – Jedd DumaguinaAnimation – Sonny BurgosExecutive Producer – Ramona Nieva CEBU CITY (MindaNews
Si Mallaki Asta Tarumpu(Mallaki and the Spinning Top)An Illustrated Children’s BookAdapted from the Oral Narration of Matanam Bonifacio EmbaanResearcher/Writer: Vanessa Mae Empasis SeguraIllustrator: Octupus & WhalePublished by: 8 Letters Bookstore and Publishing CEBU CITY (MindaNews / 10 Oct) – The
CEBU CITY (MindaNews / 9 Oct) – St. Pope Paul VI spoke these words eloquently during his speech to the delegates at the United Nations Assembly on October 4, 1965. This was the first time a Pope addressed the UN
CEBU CITY (MindaNews / 25 Sept)—In this Godforsaken country (only one of two supposedly Catholic countries in Asia—along with East Timor—with the majority of its citizens claiming membership with the Roman Catholic Church), there have recently been a lot of
BOOK REVIEW: ‘GAPNOD: A Personal Account on Love, Loss and Everything in between from Bohol to Mindanao and Back’ by Oscar Labastilla8 Letters Publishing, Cebu City, 2024 Karl Gaspar CSsR WE ARE ALL GAPNODS! “Ang palad sa tawo sama sa
(Eulogy delivered by Redemptorist Brother Karl Gaspar for Fr. Amado “Picx” Picardal, on the last night of his wake on 5 June 2024 at the Redemptorist Church in Cebu City) Maayong gabii sa tanan nga miduyog sa pamilya ni Fr.
A Eulogy For My Brother, Fr. Amado “Picx” Picardal, CSsR CEBU CITY (MindaNews / 29 May)—As a Redemptorist missionary, Fr. Amado Picardal, CSsR, better known to his confreres, family and friends as Fr. Picx, walked a thousand kilometers across the
BOOK REVIEW:MAGDARAGAT, An Anthology of Filipino-Canadian WritingEdited by: Teodoro Alcuitas, C.E, Gatchalian &, Patria RiveraPublished by: Cormorant Books, Inc., Toronto, Canada2023 CEBU CITY (MindaNews / 20 February) – Considering that the Filipinos reside in an archipelago constituted by at least
WA(O)NDER: SONGS FROM THE HEARTBy Elvi C. TamayoPublished by Blue Iguana Computer Consultancy ServicesDavao City, 2023 CEBU CITY (MindaNews / 10 February) – In Davao City, an urban center that is teeming with artists in the various fields (literature, visual
REVIEW OF A NOVEL: SAN RAFAELBy Leila Noel-RispensPublished by 8Letters Bookstore & Publishing CEBU CITY (MindaNews / 11 January) — Whether it is in plays, novels or films – Romeo and Juliet, Wuthering Heights, Love in a Time of Cholera, The English
CEBU CITY (MindaNews / 31 December) – Movie theaters across the country today are still showing the film GOMBURZA – the historical biographical film co-written and directed by Pepe Diokno – that features and follows the lives of the Gomburza, three Roman Catholic native Filipino priests
CEBU CITY (MindaNews / 22 December) – Two babies were recently born into our households (one biological, the other surrogate). Between these babies’ birth and the one to be celebrated a few days from now – the birth of the
REVIEW: BOOKENDS By Nikki Rivera Gomez APM Digital Commercial Prints & Label, Davao City 2023 CEBU CITY (MindaNews / 8 December) – “Even in writing, I lie to myself saying there is no longer a story, no two words, I’d
CEBU CITY (MindaNews / 2 December) — On Sunday, December 3, all Christians in the whole world will enter into the Season of Advent lasting for four weeks. It is supposed to be a time for reflections as we believers
CEBU CITY (MindaNews / 16 Nov)—In 2013, a group who used to work in the various offices of Susana Building—located along J. P. Laurel St. in Davao City—came together for a write-shop in the hope that they could collectively publish
CEBU CITY (MindaNews / 8 November)—The generation whose coming of age coincided with the youth-quake that rocked the whole world with reverberations in Third World countries like the Philippines gave birth to youth social movements that impacted the contemporary histories
Last October 13, I sat as a member of the panel for the public defense of Antoine Laugrand, an Anthropology student of the University of Louvain (Belgium) on the French side. He presented his dissertation for consideration of the panel
CEBU CITY (MindaNews / 27 October) – Another sad news reached the People of God across Mindanao in the evening of October 26, announcing the death of Sr. Esper Clapano M.A. The shocking news brought sadness to all those who
Film Review: Killers of the Flower MoonDirected by: Martin ScorseseWritten by: Martin Scorsese and Eric Roth based on a book by David GrannCast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone, Robert de Niro and many othersCurrently showing nationwide in cinemas. I rarely review
CEBU CITY (MindaNews / 21 June)—In my last column published in MindaNews last June 11, I entitled the piece, “Quo Vadis the Filipino youth today on 125th anniversary of our Independence?” In this essay, I asked the question: “So how
CEBU CITY (MindaNews / 11 June) — “Only he is truly a patriot who, whatever his post, high or low, tries to do the greatest possible good to his countrymen.” These were words uttered by Apolinario Mabini, the Brains of
BOOK REVIEW: AUTHORITARIAN DISASTER: The Duterte Regime and the Prospects for a Marcos PresidencyEditor: Regletto Aldrich ImbongContributors: Karlo Mikhail Mongaya, Patrick Torres, Ma. Diosa Labiste, Jose Monfred Sy, Marie Rose Arong, Jerry Imbong, Carlton “Cobbie” Palm, Phoebe Zoe Maria Sanchez
CEBU CITY (MindaNews / 18 May) — In Lewis Caroll’s Alice in Wonderland, published in 1865, the phrase “curiouser and curiouser” appears. Which only really means things are getting more and more curious bordering on something increasingly strange. I am feeling
BOOK REVIEWTHE RULERS OF MAGINDANAO IN MODERN HISTORY, 1515-1903 (Continuity and Change in a Traditional Realm in the Southern Philippines)Author: Datu Michael Ong MasturaPublished by the Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2023 CEBU CITY (MindaNews / 25 April) — Centuries before
CEBU CITY (MindaNews / 23 April) — In 1965, the English songwriter-singer Jonathan King recorded a song entitled Everyone’s Gone To The Moon. Part of the lyrics of the song goes this way: Streets full of people, all alone, Roads full
CEBU CITY (MindaNews / 22 April) — Have you ever paused at some moment and listened to the lamentations of Mother Earth? The sad whisper of the wind as it loses its coolness with the sweltering heat here in the
CEBU CITY (MindaNews / 13 April) — April 13, today, is the birthday of Fr. Rudolfo “Dong” Galenzoga. He turned 76 today. This essay was written to honor his memory. Sometime in mid-March 2021 – when the COVID-19 pandemic was
CEBU CITY (MindaNews / 08 April) — Footsteps. When we walk, we hardly take cognizant of the footsteps we take unless – like the Buddhists – we are so mindful of the here and now, the precious present moment. It
REVIEW:Oras de PeligroProduced by: Bagong Siklab ProductionsDirected by: Joel LamanganScreenplay by: Bonifacio Ilagan and Eric RamosCast: Cherry Pie Picache, Allen Dizon, Nanding Josef, Mae Paner, Therese Malvar, Dave Bornea, Allan Paule, Gerald Santos, Marcus Madrigal, Rico Barrera, Carlos Dala, Felixia
BOOK REVIEW: SO MUCH GOODNESSStories and Thoughts in My Life JourneyAuthor: Bert CacayanPublished by Alberto Reserva CacayanDavao City, 2023 The world today has been labelled VUCA by a few social scientists, that is, it is a world that is volatile,
BOOK REVIEW – Kalandrakas Stories and Storytellers – A Preliminary and Continuing Survey and Literary Mapping PART I – 1890-1945 PART II – 1946-1990 Editor – Ricardo M. De Ungria Publisher – Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2022 CEBU CITY
(Can’t Go Out and Other Stories)Author: Ms. Elizabeth Joy Serrano-QuijanoPublished by: Ateneo Publication Office, Ateneo de Davao University Once upon a time – actually only about half-a-century ago – when we were kids growing up in Digos which was then
CEBU CITY (MindaNews / 07 January) — Many decades ago as we were growing up, January 6 was celebrated by the Christian world as the Feast of the Three Kings. The event being celebrated was the arrival of Melchor, Gaspar
CEBU CITY (MindaNews / 21 Dec) – For those who have the means, one cause of stress during the Christmas season is what gifts to give to one’s loved ones? This is especially so if they seem to have all
CEBU CITY (MindaNews / 17 December) — As we approach the end of the Advent season and embrace the spirit of the Christmas season, let me offer this reflection. Because we Christians have regularly entered into the four-week period of
REVIEW:1. BOOK:Tacbil Mosque Palimbang MassacreA ReaderPublished by the Human Rights Violations Victims’ Memorial Commission2022 2. ART EXHIBIWeaving Women’s Words On Wounds Of WarAteneo Art Gallery, ArreteAteneo De ManilaStill Ongoing Today, September 24 is a day to NEVER FORGET! Not especially
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 23 September) — A number of slogans came to mind if one found his/her way to the third floor of the Parish Pastoral Council inside the Redemptorist Compound along J. P. Laurel St., Bajada, Davao City
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 20 September) — On a clear day after a river of clouds flows across Mt Apo’s rugged terrain and disappears into the horizon, leaving a majestic sight of Mindanao’s most revered volcano with the highest peak,
REVIEW A VISION OF A CHURCH RENEWED Living The Ecclesiology of Vatican II and PCP II Fr. Amado L. Picardal CSsR Claretian Publications, Foundation Inc., 2022 DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 19 September) — Amidst the disturbing news that the highly esteemed
