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Breaking
Point
Surprise Classroom Visit from the UN
nothing
to
hide regarding
the EJKs, why
fear the coming of the “big,
bad” wolf named Agnes?
Even Teddy Locsin, whom I
used to admire for his fearless
tirade and diatribe of the
Marcos administration, has
snidely criticized Callamard,
and has given this surprise
visit a victory for the Duterte
government, tweeting that,
“she will never be allowed to
step foot in (Geneva) it, or
have anything to do with it.”
What is Locsin thinking? Is he
that blind with his power and
utang na loob to Duterte not
to see that she is at the centre
of the HRC? Locsin has had
too much of Duterte to drink.
He also thanks Callamard
for “solidifying the country
behind Duterte and his drug
war.” Solidifying who? His
gang of cohorts who have lied
through their teeth defending
the random killing of men and
women, while the drug lords
are free to roam the streets
and continue its support to
the pockets of the politicians
and cabinet members of the
Duterte government?
Cayetano
was
in
Geneva screaming it was
“fake news” that brought
the extrajudicial killings into
By Rosette Correa
As a teacher, I am
used
to
spontaneous,
unannounced
visits
of
supervisors to observe me in
the classroom. Every teacher
is always ready for a visit, any
time, any hour, any minute that
she is in the classroom. The
visit is sometimes welcome,
sometimes not; nevertheless,
it is a standard operating
procedure that teachers have
been trained to experience as
part of their job.
So,
when
Agnes
Callamard, United Nations
Rapporteur
visits
the
Philippines,
announced
but unwelcomed, all of
Malacanang breaks into
sweat. Why? Because they
have tried to poke Callamard
with a ten-foot-pole away
from the Philippines and
away from its unjustifiable
and inexplicable extrajudicial
killings since day one. “Now
that she’s here, what do we
do?” ask the Duterte spin
doctors, who have been
caught with their pants down,
and don’t have an written
and polished lie to use as an
excuse for being ill-prepared.
Because really, when
it comes down to it, if the
Duterte administration has
Bulong
Pulungan
By Deedee Siytangco
more
Healer
and
much
Angel Thoughts
“Take care of my priests,
they are mine,” Mother Mary
as told to St. John Vianey in
a vision “Priests should be
joyous, healthy, and normal!”
Pope Francis to Salesian
seminarians
Meet
35-year-old
Fernando M. Suarez of
Butong, Taal, Batangas who
was ordained a priest of the
Companions of the Cross, a
relatively new congregation
in the Notra Dame Cathedral
in Ottawa, Ontario. He was
the eldest of four children of
humble rice and corn farmers,
a graduate of chemistry at
the Adamson University in
fail after a day of observations
- it feels like we failed our
students. Malacanang doesn’t
feel they failed anybody - they
are simply angry at Callamard
because she didn’t give them
time to prepare their bogus
lesson and prepare their lies
for presentation. They really
don’t care that people actually
died and continue to die -
they just want to look good,
and without their fake lesson
plan, they failed miserably.
They will certainly come up
with throwbacks, such as
Callamard came because
Cayetano is in Geneva, and
she wouldn’t be able to
answer his questions, etc.
However, the first strike has
been cast, and Malacanang
misses the point. Callamard
does not get questioned,
she questions, so the boys in
Malacanang should always be
prepared. If they have nothing
to hide, why fear anything?
A good teacher is
always prepared for a visit, a
bad one prepares visual aids
and an excuse. The results of
this visit by Callamard gets
sent to the Principal’s office
for evaluation, and the boys
in Malacanang are not going
to like the results.
.
Fr. Fernando M. Suarez
Manila.
His was a
“late” vocation,
but he persevered since “the
call” was strong and could
not be silenced. Fernando
had entered two seminaries
in Manila during his college
years, but was told by the
religious formators that he
didn’t belong to the priesthood.
Disappointed, he worked for
a while in a multi-national
company in Manila but later
ventured to go to Canada on
the kind invitation and help
of a Canadian he befriended
who saw “something” in the
shy “provinciano.”
Fernando Suarez with
bishops and priests in the
8th National Priests Tennis
Tournament
in
Alabang
Country Club sponsored by
San Miguel Corporation. Only
Reprinted from Manila Bulletin
the light in the local and
foreign news papers. He says
that it was an exaggeration
of the truth. I highly doubt
that the New York Times,
the Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation and other highly
respected journalists would
create an entire conspiracy
surrounding the antics of a
delusional president and his
cabinet to make a great story,
and to risk their reputation
and journalistic integrity of
many decades for this. I
admire Cayetano because
he has to defend his boss,
as well as his job, but at
the same time I pity him for
denouncing the truth to save
his hide. I can’t ever imagine
myself as a teacher to be
hiding the truth that I did not
prepare a good lesson, by
embellishing my presentation
with lovely visuals that teach
my students nothing at all.
That, will be a complete lie,
and Cayetano has certainly
prepared his visuals very well.
U n f o r t u n a t e l y,
Malacanang couldn’t prepare
their visual aids. They had
a visit, their lesson plan was
absent, and now they blame
the visitor for not allowing
them to prepare a fabricated
lesson full of nothing. Every
teacher knows what it’s like to
lady player is PDI’s Lifestyle
editor, Thelma Sioson San
Juan
While there, he was
“led” to the Companions of the
Cross who welcomed him. He
joined their seminary and was
eventually ordained a priest.
He was ready to be a parish
priest or wherever he was
assigned by his congregation,
but God had other plans for
the newly consecrated priest.
Assigned to a parish
with “healing” masses, Fr.
Suarez dutifully followed and
started celebrating mass
at the church. On request,
he later prayed over the
parishioners and this is where
his “gift of healing” was
publicly revealed. Scores of
parishioners claimed their
illnesses were cured when he
prayed over them after mass.
Many were “slain in the spirit”
and rested on the floor of
the church. In a short time,
his “gift” gained him a big
“following” and this caused
him to be known outside his
parish and eventually all over
Canada.
It was not the first time
his “gift” was revealed to
him.
As a 16-year-old boy,
Fernando discovered his
“gift” when he prayed over
a paralyzed beggar woman
at the door of the Sta. Cruz
church in Manila. He felt pity
for her and laid his hands on
her and prayed for her healing.
He left and then heard her
screaming for joy because
she could suddenly walk. The
frightened Fernando run off
and kept the incident a secret
out of fear people would find
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him a weirdo.
Now as a priest in
Ottawa, he was “unmasked”
and droves of parishioners
came to his masses. The
Congregation took notice
of the young priest and
assigned Fr. Jeff Shannon as
his spiritual director. Later on
the Congregation gave him
permission to bring his healing
mission around the globe as
requests for him to conduct
healing masses came in. The
head of the congregation felt
that Fr. Suarez’s special gift
should be shared by more
people as a reflection of God’s
Divine mercy.
Twelve years ago his
healing ministry brought him
back to his motherland and
his intention was to stay in
Batangas and serve there.
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