The oldest traditional defense strategy is simply castle keep. This is why in ancient times, the building of a city or at least a great town is preceded by the building of a fortress or a castle that would enclose the King's court or palace..

Have you ever wondered in the game of chess, why the bishop is quite powerful? Well, in this series of essays, I will be explaining the matter in a manner by which the layman, the simple chess player on the street would understand.

Thanks to modern psychiatry and psychology and the new interpretation of the social justice system; today's sexual revolution is unparalleled since Sodom and Gomorrah and the days of Noah. Christian countries have so long frowned at Islamic child marriages where children die under the weigh of lustful men, family-initiated vendetta rape in India, mutilations of private parts in animistic tribes and by the selling of children by their own parents to pedophiles.

Ecumenism is such a big word. I do not know how all mankind as brothers are going to fit in. But if you are elected Vicar of Christ, perhaps you would know how the charism given to popes must be so special that things unfathomable for us would be possible for them.

There is no stopping Pope Francis. If John Paul II may be said to be the most traveled pontiff during his lifetime, Jorge Bergoglio may actually break his record and in so doing bring about so many records between the Vatican and the countries he has visited during his pontificate.

It was about five centuries ago when a sign of contradiction was transplanted in the islands. It was akin to the Byzantine sword brandished by Constantine the Great, whose cruel character as an emperor was transformed into a child Principe Constantino, to escort the representation of Santa Elena. At the same time if one holds the blade (kapit sa patalim), it was the cross of a faith that will triumph in the end.