Human Face

Community journalist languishing in jail

For more than four years since 2020, Filipino journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio has been languishing…

One-on-one with Fr. Gustavo Gutierrez

I saw many posts online about Dominican Fr. Gustavo Gutiérrez, proudly Peruvian, popularly known as…

Neutralization: Euphemism for kill orders

He “doth protest too much, methinks,” to borrow a line from William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,” aptly…

13 FLAG lawyers killed, FLAG @ 50

They deserve first mention. So, before all else, here are the names of Free Legal…

Kerwin Espinosa coerced to lie, priest brought in

In his testimony before the House of Representatives’ quad committee last week, Kerwin Espinosa revealed…

Cathartic moments

Cathartic (adj.) and catharsis (noun) are hardly words commonly used to describe the feelings of…

‘Because we killed an innocent man’

Because we killed an innocent man.” The straightforward admission was the kind to reverberate across…

Ruminations on ‘The Insatiables’

The past weeks’ series of events—the hearings at the Senate and the House of Representatives…

Bank data breach in PNB

I do not remember having received any warning from the Philippine National Bank (PNB) that…

‘Grace’

A powerful, must-see piece of theater from beginning to end based on real-life events. Every…