Hail to the chair by Victor Avecilla
The Catholic Church in the Philippines after 1986
Top officials of the Roman Catholic Church in the Philippines were the ones who derived the most benefits from the...
Celdran and the separation of Church and State
By now, many readers know of the plight of Carlos Celdran, the controversial tour guide and political activist who, in...
Cardinal Tagle’s politics and Celdran’s plight
Two very interesting, related events took place in the Philippines roughly a week before the arrival of Pope Francis in...
MMDA’s Tolentino is unfit to head the Comelec
News reports in late December 2014 had it that Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) Chairman Francis Tolentino is a possible...
Not all is well with Shell’s Philippine centennial (Part 1)
2014 marked the 100th year of Shell in the Philippines. To mark the centennial of this famous gasoline brand in...
Manila Standard website (manilastandard.net), launched in August 2002, extends the newspaper’s reach beyond its traditional readers and makes its brand of Philippine news and opinion available to a much wider and geographically diverse readership here and overseas.