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"I hope you can forgive the Church for what happened to you," Tobias told Estrada during a Mass to mark the deposed president’s 69th birthday.


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Lagdameo made the call during the 24th National Prayer Breakfast attended by President Arroyo, who shook hands with opposition Sen. Aquilino Pimentel Jr. after saying the common prayers. 


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The administration should just let everyone blow off steam. With war chests depleted and even opposition financiers now scrambling for an invitation to the Arroyo inaugural, any threat of EDSA IV (or Makati Uno) is bound to end with a whimper. 


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Instead of telling his supporters to block busy streets, threatening to stage people power and disrupting our already perpetually disrupted lives, he’s advising them to guard the vote closely, and document cases of cheating like armies of "scene of the crime" police investigators.  


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More than 600,000 individuals, including Muslims and members of the Iglesia ni Cristo and El Shaddai squatting in a compound of the 444-hectare NGC along Commonwealth Avenue, will soon realize their dream of owning their own lots.


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Remorse

By SKETCHES | By Ana Marie Pamintuan | April 21, 2006 - 12:00am

That was one half-baked apology from Bishop Antonio Tobias to former President Joseph Estrada the other day. You could see this in the frowns on some of the faces around Erap as they listened to the sermon of the...

Opinion

CBCP to RP leaders: Be servants of the people

By Edu Punay | December 8, 2005 - 12:00am

Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) president Archbishop Angel Lagdameo of Jaro, Iloilo appealed yesterday to the nation’s leaders to become servants of the country and work together...

Headlines

EDITORIAL – Back to work

October 22, 2005 - 12:00am

The bickering and backstabbing are unlikely to stop, but politicians at least might get some work done now that religious leaders are calling for a ceasefire.

Opinion

Winner

By SKETCHES | By Ana Marie Pamintuan | June 21, 2004 - 12:00am

We have a winner, and it looks like Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. Now all we have to await is the opposition’s full temper tantrum. The administration should just let everyone blow off steam. With war chests depleted...

Opinion

Making enemies

By SKETCHES | By Ana Marie Pamintuan | May 19, 2004 - 12:00am

If the opposition Koalisyon ng Nagkakaisang Pilipino doesn’t watch out, it could end up making enemies of everyone outside the KNP. And at this point, the KNP could use every help it can get.

Opinion

Weakness

By SKETCHES | By Ana Marie Pamintuan | May 17, 2004 - 12:00am

In a democracy, an election is supposed to be the best manifestation of people power. In our democracy, elections expose the weaknesses of our republic.

Opinion

Sobriety

By SKETCHES | By Ana Marie Pamintuan | May 14, 2004 - 12:00am

As in the campaign, when Sen. Panfilo Lacson presented the most coherent, consistent platform among the presidential aspirants, he’s again the one making the most sensible statements in this surreal post-election...

Opinion

Unsettled

By SKETCHES | By Ana Marie Pamintuan | March 12, 2004 - 12:00am

See what happens when you open your mouth without understanding what you’re saying. You could be saying yes to rape, or you could rattle the markets by hinting at debt repudiation.

Opinion

New housing law benefits QC squatters

May 18, 2003 - 12:00am

President Arroyo signed yesterday the National Government Center Housing and Land Utilization Act of 2003 that awards lands to some 55,000 squatter families in one of Quezon City’s poorest urban districts. More...

Metro

Jitters

By SKETCHES | By Ana Marie Pamintuan | April 26, 2002 - 12:00am

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo isn’t going to be ousted in a coup and she won’t be replaced by the "collective leadership" of a junta. You need the backing of the military and police for that. There...

Opinion