OURVIEWS Sandwiched in the ongoing verbal fracas between Mayor Rodrigo Duterte and Catholic priest Fr. Pete Lamata is this exchange between two durianburgdavao visitors (see Comments) who gave deferring views about the mayor. The anti, a Mr. Jess, suspects durianburgdavao is a paid hack taking the cudgels for […]
IN THE EYE OF A STORM. Fr. Pete Lamata, second from left, with Davao Archbishop Fernando Capalla with lay group leaders during a religious gathering. Fr. Pete, parish priest of St. Mary’s Parish in Buhangin, Davao Cit has been revealed has having broken his vow of celibacy by […]
Church joins call vs. summary executions By ROGER M. BALANZA As shadowy gunmen opened up the year with a deadly score of 31 dead in January alone, Davao Archbishop Fernando Capalla has called for an end to the senseless killings. Over police inability to stop the murders, Capalla […]
DAVAO City Councilor Conrado “Conde” Baluran said the woman that Catholic priest Fr. Pete Lamata married in l982 is his younger sister, Maria Asuncion “Mara” Baluran. Baluran said the marriage had been a secret for a year, and and came into the open after being divulged by a […]
MYVIEWS By ROGER M. BALANZA Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte’s warning in his television program on ABS/CBN that he would bare more priests into sexual escapades after revealing that Catholic priest Fr. Pete Lamata had broken his vow of celibacy to marry a woman and then continues to […]
Capalla admits Fr. Pete a married priest By ROGER M. BALANZA Davao Archbishop Fernando Capalla yesterday admitted Fr. Pedro “Pete” Lamata had broken his vow of celibacy but appealed for compassion and forgiveness for the priest who is object of Mayor Rodrigo Duterte’s ire. Archbishop Capalla, in a […]
