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                    [ArticleID] => 1498987
                    [Title] => 'Rebel' female Buddhist monks challenge Thailand status quo
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On a rural road just after daybreak, villagers young and old kneel reverently before a single file of ochre-robed women, filling their bowls with rice, curries, fruits and sweets. In this country, it's a rare sight.

[DatePublished] => 2015-09-12 00:29:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1255368 [AuthorName] => Denis D. Gray [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => http://wpc.E0AD.edgecastcdn.net/00E0AD/images/the-philippine-star/world/20150912/women-monks-thailand.jpg ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1431357 [Title] => The Tyranny of the Clergy [Summary] =>

At the very outset, let me call the readers’ attention to my first article for the year 2015 entitled, “A Postscript and a Prelude” (The Freeman, January 04, 2015; p. 17).

[DatePublished] => 2015-03-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1106840 [AuthorName] => Agustin L. Sollano, Jr. [SectionName] => Freeman Cebu Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => cebu-lifestyle [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1415385 [Title] => A warning from Pope Francis [Summary] =>

Now that Pope Francis has left, it is time to recall and reflect on the messages that he gave during his visit to our country. Almost all of the Pope’s messages have been previously articulated in the Apostolic Exhortations issued last November 2013.

[DatePublished] => 2015-01-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133740 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1302661 [AuthorName] => Elfren S. Cruz [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1220221 [Title] => Directory for priests [Summary] =>

I'm happy to know that the Vatican issued early this year a new edition of the Directory on the Ministry and Life of  Priests.

[DatePublished] => 2013-09-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134343 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096945 [AuthorName] => Fr. Roy Cimagala [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1035051 [Title] => Clergy, faithful digest Francis' Brazil message [Summary] =>

In word and deed during his trip to Brazil, Pope Francis put clergy and faithful alike on notice: Get energized, go out and spread the Gospel, give the Roman Catholic Church a more active role in society.

[DatePublished] => 2013-07-31 05:05:05 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1180384 [AuthorName] => Bradley Brooks [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => http://img855.imageshack.us/img855/4889/xear.jpg ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 920062 [Title] => US clergy sex victims want change from new pope [Summary] =>

The election of a new pope could help heal the wounds left by a Roman Catholic sex abuse crisis that has savaged the church's reputation worldwide. For alleged victims, much depends on whether Pope Francis disciplines the priests and the hierarchy that protected them.

[DatePublished] => 2013-03-15 16:24:08 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 618105 [Title] => An unwinnable war [Summary] =>

For quite some time, I have written pieces that have been critical of members of the clergy, so I guess now would be as good a time as any to say why.

[DatePublished] => 2010-10-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136063 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1382205 [AuthorName] => Jerry Tundag [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 68950 [Title] => Lay spirituality [Summary] => [DatePublished] => 2008-06-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134343 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096945 [AuthorName] => Fr. Roy Cimagala [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 383091 [Title] => Church and Elections [Summary] => Now that we are in the Year of Social Concerns, and also that we will be having elections this year, it seems but proper that we make some proactive, not reactive, effort to both humanize and Christianize this political exercise.

Sad to say, our elections have gone to the dogs, consistently being accompanied by ugly cohorts like cheating, bribing, killing, violence, etc., leading us to a black hole of hideous social ills.
[DatePublished] => 2007-02-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133205 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096945 [AuthorName] => Fr. Roy Cimagala [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 380934 [Title] => EDITORIAL — Santo Niño, help us by helping a straying clergy [Summary] => A Filipino priest is being accused of embezzling funds from a certain diocese in the United States. The amount he is being accused of embezzling is nothing to sneeze at. It is said to be somewhere in the vicinity of $1 million. [DatePublished] => 2007-01-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )
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