Von Chaerou Gabay 🇻🇦🇵🇭

AB Psychology graduate | Straight Master in Teaching Philosophy and PhD in Philosophy student at De La Salle University - Manila (May 2026)

[Von Chaerou Gabay 🇻🇦🇵🇭 @gabay173]

You can do more with the grace of God than you think.

– St. John Baptist de La Salle

[The Catholic Gaijin @timothyjphelan]

There’s no real equivalent of “Good luck!” in ordinary Japanese speech.

That matters to me. My senior seminar students are job hunting.
And I’m always tempted to say the default English phrase: “Good luck!”
But as a Catholic, I don’t really believe in luck.

Fortunately, Japanese gives me something better to say: “Ganbatte!” (Give it your all.)

I can then add what I actually want to say: “I’ll pray for you.”

[Fr. Paolo D'Angona @RomanoSace57080]

"Life is a daily struggle against one's own stupidity." (Nicolás Gómez Dávila)

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

I assure my closeness to the people of the Philippines, struck a few days ago by a powerful earthquake. I pray for the deceased and their families, for the wounded, and for all those suffering because of this disaster.

[St. Thomas Aquinas @Aquinas_Quotes]

The two Persons—namely, that of the Father and that of the Son—are distinguished not by essence, but by a relation (ScG 4.14).

[Catholicism in East Asia @TheChurchInAsia]

Roughly two weeks ago, the Japanese "Kaze no Ie" movement celebrated the 40th anniversary of its establishment. Founded by Father Yoji Inoue and Endō Shūsaku, it seeks to have "the gospel of Jesus... ...take root and blossom in the cultural climate of Japan."

[Ojike Uzoma @Xtopher_Uzo]

This guy finally admits what people are scared to admit about Catholic relics

[Little Susie @CatholicSusie]

Can we agree this is the best "Per Ipsum, et cum ipso, et in ipso" (in Spanish) Pope Leo has sung so far?

I think it is. 😊

[Von Chaerou Gabay 🇻🇦🇵🇭 @gabay173]

Introduce yourself with two saints

[Brayden Cook @The_Catechumen]

Introduce yourself with two saints

[Catholic Sat @CatholicSat]

Barcelona, you win. Sagrada Família. Just incredible.

Watch the whole thing with the sound on

[Von Chaerou Gabay 🇻🇦🇵🇭 @gabay173]

What is this (and why)?

[りりぃ @yu_kixx22]

美術館で声出して笑う日が来るとは思わなかった。

[Universidad de Salamanca @usal]

La Universidad de Salamanca, cuna del pensamiento universal y los derechos humanos. 🏛️✨

🇻🇦 Hoy, el Papa León XIV @Pontifex_es ha reivindicado en el @Congreso_Es el valor universal del legado de la #EscuelaDeSalamanca y de Francisco de Vitoria, poniendo en valor la vigencia de una tradición intelectual clave en la historia del derecho y el pensamiento moderno.

«Al hablar hoy de la persona humana, esta memoria conduce naturalmente a Salamanca y al pensamiento que allí maduró». 👏

El pontífice ha recordado que nuestra Universidad fue el lugar donde maduró la reflexión sobre el valor irreductible de todo ser humano. Un pensamiento que sigue siendo la brújula para los desafíos actuales. 🌎

Un recordatorio del papel histórico y presente de la Universidad de Salamanca como origen y proyección del humanismo jurídico. Seguimos trabajando para que la razón y la ética guíen el progreso de la humanidad. 🚀

[Von Chaerou Gabay 🇻🇦🇵🇭 @gabay173]

@exanxc Abortion is not the only illegal thing in the Philippines. It is one of the two countries in the world (the other being Vatican) where divorce is illegal. The only things holding back this country's development are corruption and democracy.

[Von Chaerou Gabay 🇻🇦🇵🇭 @gabay173]

@PAHoyeck True (haven't read any of them yet)

[Become A Saint @BeSaintly]

No matter how just your words may be, you ruin everything when you speak with anger.

—Saint John Chrysostom

[Von Chaerou Gabay 🇻🇦🇵🇭 @gabay173]

Philosopher readability tier list:

S: Augustine, Boethius, Plato
A: Aristotle, MacIntyre, St. Thomas Aquinas, Quine, Zhu Xi
B: Anscombe, Byung Chul-Han, Albert Camus
C: Franz Brentano, William James, Karol Wojtła (JPII)
D: Kant, Heidegger
F: Hegel, Merleau-Ponty

[The PartTime Philosopher @PartTimePhilo]

Philosopher readability tier list:

S: Plato, Russell, Augustine
A: Hume, Macintyre, Rawls, Nietzsche
B: Descartes, Korsgaard
C: Locke, Berkeley, Rousseau
D: Aristotle, Aquinas, Fichte
F: Kant, Heidegger, Hegel

[Edward Feser @FeserEdward]

"To judge from social media, you’d think the document is primarily devoted to artificial intelligence, with some irrelevant comments about slavery and just war theory arbitrarily tacked on. You’d also think those comments mark a rupture with traditional Catholic teaching. None of this is true. There is no break with traditional teaching. While artificial intelligence (or AI) gets significant attention, the encyclical is actually devoted to a much larger theme, of which AI is only a part. And the remarks on slavery and just war theory are not arbitrary, but fit in naturally with this larger theme. Magnifica Humanitas is in fact a major contribution to the tradition of Catholic social teaching inaugurated by the pope’s namesake Leo XIII in Rerum Novarum. It is rich in insights, and gives Catholics a sound framework for dealing with the 'new things' of our times, just as Rerum Novarum did for Catholics of the late nineteenth century and beyond."