Managers of chaos
Mother’s Day is that fleeting moment in May when society briefly pretends not to take mothers for granted, then forgets again by Monday.
John Henry Dodson · · 3 min read
Mother’s Day is that fleeting moment in May when society briefly pretends not to take mothers for granted, then forgets again by Monday.
John Henry Dodson · · 3 min read
A pastoral document that Philippine Church leaders say Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle helped craft to address clerical sex abuse was apparently taken down from…
John Henry Dodson · · 4 min read
The Pastoral Guidelines on Sexual Abuses and Misconduct by the Clergy, issued in 2003 by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines, laid down a…
John Henry Dodson · · 1 min read
Touching, sure — but how logical is it to put a man fresh from Siberian exile in charge of the Catholic Church, only for him to do what no real pope has dared:…
John Henry Dodson · · 3 min read
But a line drawn must be held. The MMDA must prove it deserves this exclusive mandate. It must deliver fairness, not just fines; logic, not just law. And that…
John Henry Dodson · · 3 min read
Cast from heaven, they took the forms our fears gave them, and every Holy Week, when Christ lay dead and heaven itself seemed closed for maintenance, they…
John Henry Dodson · · 3 min read
Sharing the guilt are the adults who handed them invisible daggers long ago — through broken homes, poverty, violent media, and a justice system that reacts…
John Henry Dodson · · 3 min read
‘Fake news,’ they cried. ‘AI-generated! She’s in United States custody!’ someone tweeted from a probably-not-blue-checkmarked account, likely still in pajamas…
John Henry Dodson · · 2 min read
“And then there’s the saga of those two prominent brothers, their recent maneuvers to send post-haste former President Rodrigo Duterte to The Hague and then to…
John Henry Dodson · · 3 min read
In this crime-bedeviled country, the worst that could happen — assuming justice prevails — is that they’d languish in overcrowded prisons, their three square…
John Henry Dodson · · 2 min read