In 1986 I was teaching a doctoral course at Catholic University and had among my students a young and dynamic Philipino priest, Fr. Luis "Chito" Tagle. With him we followed the events that were to lead to the peaceful demise of the Marcos government and the installation as president of Mrs. Corazon Aquino, or "Cory," as everyone called her. The day that "People Power" accomplished this wetoasted the event and Chito with champagne in the class. (Probably, no--surely, against the rules!)Later that year I was in the Philippines on my way to a meeting of the Theological Advisory Committee of the Federation of Asian Bishops Conferences in Hong Kong. Fr. Catalino Arevalo, S.J., spiritual advisor to Cory, brought me into the presidential palace where I met her. My chief memory is of a very humble woman who made no secret of her need for our prayers. I also got to see the notorious room in which Imelda Marcos stored her huge collection of shoes, many pairs of them never used, with the price-tags still on them.The Philippine hierarchy took an active role in the popular uprising. Cardinal Sin, archbishop of Manila, was particularly important in urging the people to demonstrate peacefully against the regime. He was a very powerful figure in the Church there. (It was said that in the Philippines, "No bishop is conceived without Sin.")The NY Times obituary speaks of all this as "a high point in modern Philippine history, and it offered a model for nonviolent uprisings that has been repeated often in other countries." I wonder what was its influence on the demonstrations that were to lead, three years later (twenty years ago), to the collapse of the Soviet empire.