Why young professionals are not good at AI

BY TOM OLIVER

OCTOBER 12, 2026

When a new technology arrives, owners often turn to the youngest people in the room. They learn the tools quickly. Surely they should lead the way? With artificial intelligence (AI), that assumption can be expensive.

A young professional can produce an impressive strategy report without understanding the strategy. A CEO can mistake that report for evidence of expertise and act on it.

A Sunday reflection on God as our generous provider

 

A Sunday reflection on God as our generous provider

In today’s Responsorial Psalm (Psalm 23: 1-3a, 3b-4,5,6) it is said: “The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. In verdant pastures he gives me repose; beside restful waters he leads me; he refreshes my soul.”

In the Second Reading (Phil. 4: 12-14. 19-20), the apostle Paul said: “… In every circumstance and in all things, I have learned the secret of being well fed and of going hungry, of living in abundance and of being in need. I can do all things in him who strengthens me… My God will fully supply whatever you need, in accord with his glorious riches in Christ Jesus. To our God and Father, glory forever and ever. Amen.”

Reflecting on these verses, amid all the difficulties and challenges that we face in life — including scarcity and poverty—may we be encouraged to carry on by keeping in mind that we have a BIG and GENEROUS God who is our GREAT PROVIDER. —SL

7 Ways to become fearless

1. If you have an urge to accomplish a goal, mentally plan out what it would take to accomplish that goal.
2. Have priorities planned out but learn to live in the moment.
3. Make a mental list of your 5 biggest fears. Work everyday on overcoming these fears; unless it's a venomous animal, let them one be.
4. Mentally change your anxious and fearful thoughts into exciting and happy thoughts.
5. Get to know yourself and the strengths you possess. Magnify those strengths.
6. Revel in your uniqueness. There may be close to 7 billion people on this planet, but in the whole universe there is only one you.
7. Take educated chances that interest you and do not fear the risks.

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Beyond clean hands

 

By Fr. Roy Cimagala

Chaplain

Center for Industrial Technology and Enterprise (CITE)

Talamban, Cebu City

Email: royciagala@gmail.com

THE dinner invitation in Luke 11:37-41 quickly turns into a spiritual checkup. A Pharisee is shocked because Jesus skips the ritual washing before eating. The issue, however, is not hygiene. It is hypocrisy. Jesus immediately exposes a perennial temptation: "You clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness."

It is one of the strongest warnings Christ gives against legalism and formalism—the tendency to reduce religion to rules, rituals, appearances, and external correctness while neglecting the conversion of the heart.

Rules have their place. Rituals matter. Discipline is indispensable. The Church herself treasures them because they help form and express faith. But they become dangerous when they are mistaken for holiness itself. They are means, not the end. The end is union with God through charity.

That was the problem confronting many religious leaders in Christ's time. They had become meticulous about external observance but careless about the interior life. They could detect the smallest ceremonial violation while overlooking pride, envy, greed, and lack of mercy. They measured sanctity by visible compliance instead of invisible love.

The danger has not disappeared. It simply wears modern clothes. In the Philippine setting, where religious practice remains vibrant, this Gospel deserves serious reflection. Churches are full during fiestas, Holy Week, Simbang Gabi, and major feast days. Processions draw thousands. Devotional images are beautifully adorned. Religious organizations flourish. These are genuine blessings that testify to a people's enduring faith.

But they also invite an uncomfortable question: Do our external expressions always correspond to an interior conversion?

One can faithfully complete novenas yet refuse reconciliation within the family. One can wear religious medals while engaging in corruption. One can generously sponsor church activities but exploit employees, evade taxes, spread gossip, or harbor deep resentments. One can even become an expert in Catholic practices while remaining a stranger to Christian charity.

Legalism also breeds another spiritual disease: a judgmental attitude. When religion becomes primarily about external performance, people naturally begin comparing themselves with others. We classify who is "good," who is "bad," who is "orthodox," who is "lukewarm," often based on appearances alone. We become quick to point out another person's failures while remaining blind to our own interior poverty.

The Lord dismantles this mentality. God's gaze penetrates beyond behavior into motives, intentions, and circumstances that only he fully knows. What appears exemplary externally may hide pride. What appears imperfect may conceal heroic fidelity known only to God.

This is why Christ prescribes an unexpected remedy: "Give alms, and behold, everything will be clean for you." He shifts attention from ritual precision to generous self-giving. Charity purifies because it attacks selfishness at its root. A heart that truly loves God cannot remain indifferent to the needs of others. Genuine worship naturally overflows into justice, mercy, compassion, forgiveness, and humble service.

The Gospel therefore calls every believer to examine not only what he does but also why he does it. Are our religious practices bringing us closer to Christ? Are they making us kinder, humbler, more patient, more truthful, and less self-centered? Or have they become badges of superiority that feed our ego?

Clean hands are good. A clean heart is indispensable. Christ did not come merely to improve religious etiquette. He came to transform the human heart from within. Once that happens, the outside will eventually take care of itself.

 

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A bald eagle brought traffic to a complete stop after drivers realized it was standing guard over an injured raccoon

Cars traveling along the mountain road suddenly began slowing down when they spotted the eagle standing directly in the roadway with its wings spread. Whenever a vehicle started getting too close, the bird refused to move, forcing drivers to stop and wait.

At first, people assumed the eagle had landed there because of food. But after watching for a few moments, drivers noticed a small animal underneath its wings.

It was a raccoon.

The raccoon was lying almost completely still on the pavement while the eagle stood over it, spreading its wings whenever something approached. Strangely, the eagle didn't appear interested in attacking the raccoon at all.

Then people realized something was wrong.

The raccoon appeared to have been struck by a vehicle and was too injured to get itself off the road. Instead of flying away, the eagle remained beside it, seemingly keeping passing cars from getting any closer.

Even when people stepped out of their vehicles, the eagle held its ground. It kept its attention on the surrounding road, almost as if anything approaching the injured animal was a threat.

Eventually, wildlife rescuers arrived and carefully approached the pair. The eagle finally moved far enough away for them to reach the raccoon and carry it safely off the roadway.

Nobody watching could know exactly why the eagle stayed or what it understood about the injured raccoon.

But for several minutes, one of the most powerful birds in the sky stood in the middle of a mountain road and refused to leave a completely different animal behind

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Batanes sits at the very top of the Philippines where the Pacific Ocean meets the South China Sea. This is the smallest and least populated province in the country, a cluster of ten islands where only three are inhabited, and the wind never really stops blowing. The Ivatan people who have lived here for thousands of years built their stone houses specifically to survive typhoons that would flatten anything made of wood, and those houses are still standing centuries later while modern construction crumbles.

Life in Batanes moves at a pace that the rest of the Philippines has mostly forgotten. There are no traffic jams because there are barely any cars. Crime is essentially nonexistent, and the local honesty store system, where you take what you need and leave your payment in a box, still works because everyone knows everyone and trust is not optional on an island this small. The rolling green hills look more like Ireland or New Zealand than anything you expect to find in a tropical country, and the cliffs drop straight into water so blue it almost does not look real.

What makes Batanes truly extraordinary is how the Ivatans have preserved their culture against impossible odds. Their language, Ivatan, is spoken by fewer than 40,000 people on earth. Their traditional vakul rain capes, woven from palm leaves, are still worn during storms. Their stone-walled villages have been proposed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites. In a country of 7,600 islands, Batanes proves that the smallest and most remote places often hold the deepest stories.

If you could spend one week anywhere in the Philippines with zero agenda, would Batanes make your list?

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