December 29, 2025

A Jew Married to a Catholic: What could possibly go wrong?

By David Haldane Dec. 28, 2025   The furor started with a statement by America’s vice president. “Do I hope that eventually she is somehow moved […]
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December 1, 2025

Interfaith Marriage: Uniting Disparate Faiths

By David Haldane Dec. 1, 2025     The furor started with a statement by the US vice president. “Do I hope that eventually she is […]
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April 28, 2025

To Believe or Not To Believe?

  By David Haldane April 28, 2025     I have never been a staunch believer. Nor am I a confirmed atheist. Instead, I have consistently […]
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April 21, 2025

Israel Thriving in the Philippines

  By David Haldane April 21, 2025     This was going to be a column about Middle Eastern politics. How suffering Gazans had finally risen […]
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March 17, 2025

Israelis Misbehaving or Filipino Antisemitism?

  By David Haldane March 17, 2025     My first reaction was astonishment. Followed almost immediately by alarm. Not just the kind that gently wakes […]
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February 10, 2025

Sinning Priests

By David Haldane Feb. 10, 2025     I don’t even remember the story. It was published back in 2003 when, as a staff writer for […]
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February 2, 2025

The Jews of Siargao Island

  By David Haldane February 2, 2025     It started at an airport. Strolling through Mactan-Cebu International Airport last month, I noticed a bearded man […]
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January 6, 2025

Filipino Cardinal Leaps Aboard a Sinking Ship

  By David Haldane Jan. 6, 2025     I thought I was done with this subject for a while. Two weeks ago, I wrote a […]
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December 23, 2024

The Pope’s Anti-Semitism

 By David Haldane Dec. 23, 2024     The image was surreal. There, in the run-up to Christmas, a baby Jesus reclined on the floor of […]
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March 26, 2024

Nailed to a Cross

  By David Haldane   March 24, 2024     I vividly remember the first time I ever set foot in a Catholic Church. I must […]
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December 25, 2023

A Jewish Christmas in the Philippines

 By David Haldane Dec. 25, 2023     For me it’s always the same. Gangs of Christmas carolers gather on the patio to sing until we […]
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December 19, 2023

Socorro Bayanihan: Commune or Cult?

  By David Haldane Dec. 18, 2023     We were a mile off the coast of a remote Philippine Island when I realized the boat […]
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