Loyola Papers Vol. 1 No. 2 (2020)

After its more than three-decade hiatus, Loyola Papers has finally been revived, thanks to the efforts of Fr. Enrico C. Eusebio, Jr. S.J., our President and Editor. This move to provide a suitable platform for student and alumni research in LST is very much in line with the Apostolic Constitution, Veritatis Gaudium, which points to the “pressing need to give new impulse to the scientific research conducted in our ecclesiastical universities and faculties” (5).

In line with this, the revival of this journal and its specific focus on student and alumni publication is a welcome step towards building a culture of research in this ecclesiastical theological Faculty, a research culture that we hope would be rooted in and relevant to the context of our local churches. Allow me then to present to you our humble offering, especially in this year—the last in the novena leading up to the Quincentennial of Christianity in the Philippines—a year that has been dedicated by our bishops to Ecumenism, Interreligious Dialogue and Indigenous Peoples.