Celibacy calls priests to live in charity and relate inclusively. DAVAO CITY---In this Year of the Clergy and Religious Life, one issue that has been debated in different parts of the world is about allowing priests to get married and have a family. Celibacy is a choice...
The Director of the Archdiocesan Liturgical Center is urging every lector to have a Bible. “Basta lector naa dapat Bibliya,” said Fr. Joel Caasi during his talk on the 11th Archdiocesan Lector, Commentator, Choir, Psalmist (LCCP) Convention last March 3. He added that it’s not enough to...
[gallery columns="1" size="full" ids="19910,19911,19912,19913,19921,19922,19914,19920,19915,19916,19917,19918,19909"] More than 2,000 lectors, commentators, choir members and psalmists have joined the archdiocesan convention which runs for 11 years already. The Archdiocesan Lectors, Commentators, Choir and Psalmists (LCCP) Convention was held March 3, at the St. Francis Xavier Regional Major Seminary (REMASE). The 11th...
Church and state do not agree on in dissolubility of marriage Church prohibits divorce, upholds sanctity of marriage DAVAO CITY---Should legislators legalize divorce then canon law remains firm in its stand on the indissolubility of marriage. “Church and civil laws cannot agree on divorce so there’s...
Bishop of Tandag says he supports his successor [caption id="attachment_19861" align="alignright" width="350"] Bishop-elect of Tandag, Fr. Raul B. Dael[/caption]DAVAO CITY---When news broke about the appointment of the new bishop of Tandag, the current bishop was here in Davao to participate in the 26th National Convention of...
[gallery columns="1" size="full" ids="19854,19855,19856,19853"] Seminarians learn not only in the seminary but also outside the classroom walls. This is the result of the different immersion that the seminarians of St. Francis Xavier Regional Major Seminary have been into---they do not only learn from books but also the...
[gallery columns="1" size="full" ids="19849,19868"] DAVAO CITY---The Archdiocese of Davao has hosted the 26th National Convention of the Canon Law Society of the Philippines recently. Pondering on the theme: “The Clergy and Consecrated Persons Towards the New Evangelization,” some 163 members of the Canon Law Society---priests, religious and...
A foundation based in Taiwan has reached out to the poor and marginalized in Davao City. The Tzu Chi Foundation, whose base is in Taiwan and operates locally in the Philippines and in Davao has distributed sacks of rice for poor families in different areas in...
[gallery columns="1" size="full" ids="19736,19735,19734"] Mature not only in age but also in faith. When a community has produced a priest among them, the community becomes mature in faith. Since the local church of Davao produced not only one but three bishops, this confirms of her becoming a...
[gallery columns="1" size="full" ids="19730,19731"] DAVAO CITY---After the news broke out of his first appointment for this year of Msgr. Abel Apigo as new bishop of Mati last February 10, Pope Francis has made two new appointments just this month. Bishop Jose Romeo Lazo of San Jose de...