Baguio City is rife with thievery, according to the newspapers I read and the news on the internet. On Tuesday morning, after Holy Mass, though Our Lady of the Atonement Cathedral was ‘surrounded’ by Baguio City policemen, it was robbed. Someone (or more than one) stole 50,000 pesos (US $1087) which had been collected at Mass from the church’s office across the driveway. Supposedly someone observed the money being transferred to the office after Mass, and somehow got the tithes. I guess that it wasn’t in a safe. Maybe it was an ‘inside job,’ like many other thefts in the Philippines.