I’ve posted this blog in May 2009 and I was talking about the gays in the Catholic hierarchy, in particular, Archbishop Rembert Weakland who came out and announced that he was gay. Weakland was the former head of the archdiocese of Milwaukee. I admit the article was a not so subtle jab at my admirer [...]
he Catholic Church has a proud history, proud not of the Godly and spiritual sense but of the temporal. Afterall, this same church was the one and same as the Roman Empire. A casual check of history would reveal that this supposed religious organization started out as a tool by the Roman Emperor Constantine to [...]
It was a hectic week. Cleaning up and doing all sorts of household chores getting the house ready for the coming year. There’s also the food that was to be shared by family and friends. A lot of going back and forth from one relative to the next.
There was also a group get together! We [...]
Mr Abe Arganiosa, a Catholic priest and blogger recently published a blog entitled “Katanungan tungkol sa pananalapi ng Vatican (Question about the finances of the Vatican)”. He was supposed to be responding to a comment by an anonymous poster but curiously, instead of answering the questions with facts Mr Arganiosa started attacking the Iglesia Ni [...]
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San Fernando Giant Lantern Festival/Fiesta ng Parol – celebrated the whole month of December in San Fernando, Pampanga. The festival culminates in a judging contest of the best, biggest and most beautiful Christmas lantern made by the local craftsmen in San Fernando.
There is always a fiesta (festival) going on somewhere in the Philippines as every [...]
What do people do at Christmas? what else but merry making, eating and drinking!
Christmas Revelry
illions of people from virtually every country of the world celebrate the holiday season during the Winter Solstice, and this has been true even before Christmas as we now know it existed. Pagans , farmers and common folk celebrated the [...]
The Catholic tradition of decorated trees did not come from Christianity as laid out in scriptures but from Norse mythology similar to the eggs and bunny of Easter.
The world tree is an enormous ash that grew in the middle of the world and was sacred to Odin the chief God in Norse paganism. The mythical [...]
oddess worshipping religions were mostly based on being fertile and its relationship to nature. Crops yield bountifully(read fertile) because the “Mother” provided. This belief honors the females “power” to produce or “create new life”. Nature, and the earth in particular is itself a “mother” which produces bounty.
Goddess worship is found in almost all the [...]
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Generally accepted today as fact most specially by Catholics is the alleged heresy of Arius. According to most historians, Arius of Alexandria in Egypt held the teaching that Jesus was not co-equal with God the Father, and did not exist in “the beginning”. This teachings was said to cause a dispute with his Bishop, Alexander [...]
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My “bff”, Ernie Vasol aka losav on his alter-blog is accusing me of being an “anti-catholic”. I guess because I was blogging about catholic church doctrines and practices which do not necessarily agree with his own beliefs make me an “anti-catholic”. This made me chuckle a bit because if you read my post, nowhere will [...]
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