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Category: Philippine Crossroads
Philippine Crossroads

We Get the Government We Deserve

In the latest Corruption Perceptions Index from Transparency International, the Philippines ranks 120th out of 182 nations in 2025, placing it near the bottom of regional standings. These figures call us to a moment of honest self-examination: What kind of society are we truly building together?

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José Mario Bautista Maximiano | Lead Convenor of the Love Our Pope Movement International
Philippine Crossroads

Wealth Tax

The stark contrast between the Philippines’ wealthiest families and the millions of ordinary citizens navigating daily economic uncertainty presents a profound moral and structural challenge. This divide is often sustained by an outdated and regressive fiscal framework that disproportionately burdens working-class families.

José Mario Bautista Maximiano | Lead Convenor Of The Love Our Pope Movement International
Philippine Crossroads

The Church at a Crossroads

One path leads toward gradual irrelevance–a Church respected for its history yet increasingly distant from the lives of ordinary people. The other path is more demanding. It requires personal conversion, institutional renewal, synodal listening, courageous witness, and creative evangelization.

José Mario Bautista Maximiano | Lead Convenor of the Love Our Pope Movement International
Philippine Crossroads

The Filipino Vocation as a Synodal Dance

One gives the steps, the other gives the dance. And when the Filipino people offer their gifts generously–through faith, resilience, service, and compassion–the Church in the Philippines becomes a living garden of the Spirit where God continues to bring hope to the world.

José Mario Bautista Maximiano | Catholic Scholar
Philippine Crossroads

Abortion: Our Catholic Tragedy

In the Philippines, abortion isn’t a political debate; it’s a silent tragedy born of poverty. While the West fights for rights, thousands of Filipinas risk death with Quiapo’s herbs. It’s a heartbreaking collision of rigid Catholic dogma and desperate survival.

José Mario Bautista Maximiano | Catholic Scholar
Philippine Crossroads

Care for Our Bishops

The 131st Plenary Assembly of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) in 2026 foregrounded an unusually candid theme: care for bishops. This focus was not an exercise in clerical self-concern but an implicit acknowledgment of a deeper pastoral burden.

José Mario Bautista Maximiano | Catholic Scholar
Philippine Crossroads

Pope Francis’ Challenge against Inequality

When Pope Francis visited the Philippines in 2015, he declared that people must say “thou shalt not” to an economy of exclusion and inequality, warning that “such an economy kills” (Evangelii Gaudium, 53). His message was not abstract theology but a direct indictment of Philippine reality.

José Mario Bautista Maximiano | Catholic Scholar
Philippine Crossroads

The Church’s Mission in the Midst of Corruption

As flood-control mess and other corruption scandals engulf the nation, the Church’s response must rise from charity to prophecy and justice. The Church’s moral voice rings clear like a bell tolling against the flood.

José Mario Bautista Maximiano | Catholic Scholar

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