FRANCISCO S. TATAD
FRANCISCO S. TATAD

THE music of Christmas fills the air, and the nine-daydawn masses are about to end. But as the day itself nears, a young mentee who reads almost every potboiler I write asked me how he could keep his Catholic Christian faith while trying to live with the excesses of President Rodrigo Duterte. My initial response was to say that he should live his life primarily as a man, according to his relationship with God and his neighbors, rather than primarily as a political creature who derives his meaning or lack thereof from the running headlines created by DU30. He should put God in charge and in control.

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