Peralta says he has no regrets, eyes return to teaching after retirement By VIRGIL LOPEZ, GMA News
Published February 19, 2021 12:50pm Chief Justice Diosdado Peralta on Friday expressed no regret as he prepares to leave the judiciary one year ahead of his mandatory retirement. Peralta will hang up his robe on his 69th birthday on March 27 after 12 years on the bench, with the Judicial and Bar Council (JBC) now searching for his replacement who will be appointed by President Rodrigo Duterte. “I cannot help but look back at my life’s work and feel a more than a modest amount of pride. I will retire without regrets knowing that I did all that I could for the law, for the courts, and for the nation,” Peralta said in a speech after receiving his honorary doctorate of law degree from Tarlac State University.
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Among those appointed were Fe Mejia-Moran, Grace Antigua, Michael Verano, Rosemarie Prochina, Tina Salak and Odjie Mamon.
Mejia-Moran is part of the PH team that won three straight gold medals at the 1977, 1979 and 1981 Southeast Asian Games, while Antigua is also part of the gold-medal squad in the 1981 and 1985 SEAG.
Verano was part of the men’s team in the 1980s, while Mamon was also a former PH team member and coach of the University of Santo Tomas squad.
Prochina is a gold medalist at the 1993 SEAG, while Salak is a member of the 1995 SEAG silver medal squad.
Also part of the team are Oliver Mora, Rollie Delfino and Charo Soriano.
By Agnes Chai
Gilbert James is the second son of Sabah soil to embrace the way of life of St Francis in the Capuchin Order, the first being Fr Valentine Gompok of Tambunan in 2003.
Vocational discernment often begins with listening to God, gaining clarity and taking the next best step closest to the call. For Gilbert, it was no different. In his discernment journey, he explored several Religious Orders/Society, as well as the diocesan priesthood.
But as God would have it, he discovered that to be a son of St Francis of Assisi was the way for him to best answer God’s call to the priestly vocation – to live among a band of brothers in simplicity of life and radical poverty, and being deeply in love with God.