Which was bigger — the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit last November, or last week’s International Eucharistic Congress from January 24 to 31 in Cebu City?

APEC certainly commanded far more attention from global leaders, business, and media than the IEC. And the conference of 21 heads of government across East Asia and the Pacific represented far more people and wealth than the billion-strong Catholics having varying interest in the Congress.

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