OPENING STATEMENT – Senate Hearing on Charter Change February 1, 2018 By Christian S. Monsod Your Honors, Thank you for inviting me to this hearing. On the questions raised in your invitation, may I start with the issues of process before talking about the issues on substance. On Procedure On…
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In response to the call of our bishops “to form or reactivate circles of discernment and use your freedom as God’s children to discern, participate, discuss, and debate,” the lay faithful are encouraged to actively participate in activities of this form. You are invited to Debate on Federal Philippines, on…
Published February 12, 2018 by JJCICSI Even before coming to power, President Rodrigo Roa Duterte had been casting federalism as “our last hope” to set right the excesses of a central government controlled by “Imperial Manila,” the inequitable distribution of public resources, the uneven economic development among regions, and the…
NO TO CHA-CHA COALITION / FEBRUARY 13, 2018 (L-R) Former Representative Neri Colmenares, Satur Ocampo, Lorenzo Tanada III, Sr. Mary John Manazan, Christian Monsod, Former Chief Justice Hilario Davide, jr., and Bishop Deogracias Yniguez join forces with other personalities at the launching of the No to Cha-Cha Coalition at an…
Ateneo Alumni Conversations on the National Situation: Organized by: Ignatian Renewal Network (IRN), spearheaded by the Ateneo Alumni Association (AAA), Office of Alumni Relations (OAR), and Companions in the Ignatian Journey together with the John J. Carroll Institute on Church and Social Issues (JJCICSI) February 24, 2018 (Saturday) 1:00 PM…
The UP College of Medicine invites MDs, other healthcare professionals, medical/paramedical students, and patients and families of all faiths, to SICKNESS AND HEALING: Ethical and Spiritual Reflections (A Lenten Recollection Webinar Series) by Fr. Gregory Ramon D. GASTON Rector, Pontificio Collegio Filippino, Rome Doctorate in Sacred Theology, Bioethicist Moderator, Dr…
‘The problem is not the Constitution but the legislators who slept on the job for 30 years to fully implement it,’ says Christian Monsod, one of the framers of the 1987 Constitution Camille Elemia @CamilleElemia | Rappler Published 5:25 PM, February 01, 2018 Updated 7:25 PM, February 01, 2018 FEDERALISM.…
Statement of Partido Manggagawa at the Public Hearing on Proposed Amendment/Revision of the 1987 Constitution, Senate Committee on Constitutional Amendments February 1, 2018 Magandang hapon po sa ating kagalang-galang na tagapangulo, Sen. Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan, at sa mga kasapi ng dalawang komiteng ito ng Senado. Ganundin po sa lahat ng resource persons…
Opinion: GOVERNANCE AND ECONOMICS OF REPRESSION Its flock knows no boundaries of class, color, or status, yet still the Church is of and for the poor. Yet now, its poor is circumscribed, marked, targeted and killed, all in the altar of repression. The present chief of state has chosen…
