The country’s largest network of Catholic schools said public concerns over the proposed Pax Silica Project deserve careful attention, urging government leaders to build trust through transparency, environmental responsibility and meaningful community participation. The Catholic Educational Association of the Philippines said public skepticism about the project...
A Vatican official urged a Philippine-based global family ministry to help place families at the center of political, social and economic life, saying they are essential to building stronger communities and renewing the Church. In a message for the 45th anniversary of Couples for Christ, Cardinal...
Catholic bishops in the Philippines asked forgiveness from families who felt unwelcome after losing loved ones to suicide, urging parishes to replace judgment with compassion and accompany grieving families with hope. The appeal came in a pastoral letter approved during the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the...
OZAMIZ City— A truly synodal Church is defined not only by walking together but by stopping for people living on society’s margins, Cardinal Pablo Virgilio David of Kalookan told fellow bishops Monday as they concluded their annual retreat. Speaking during Mass at the Parish of the...
Pope Francis on Monday bestowed the “pallium,” a white woolen vestment symbolizing a metropolitan archbishop’s pastoral authority and communion with the pope, on 35 new archbishops from around the world, including three from the Philippines. The pontiff conferred the pallia during a Mass for the Solemnity...
CEAP Statement on Restoring Safe, Caring, and Values-Driven Learning Communities The Catholic Educational Association of the Philippines (CEAP) expresses profound alarm and deep sorrow over the recent stabbing and shooting incidents on two separate school campuses. These tragic events, which claimed lives and inflicted serious injuries,...
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Palo is mourning a deadly school shooting in Tacloban City, calling for prayers, solidarity and renewed efforts to prevent similar violence. In a statement, Archbishop John Du said the Church is “greatly shocked and grieving” over what he described as a...
Papal nuncio Archbishop Charles Brown blessed the Diocese of Borongan’s new Priests’ Home on Thursday, describing it as a place where elderly and retired clergy can experience care, fraternity and the love of the Church. The blessing followed a Mass at the Borongan Cathedral and marked...
Catholic leaders expressed solidarity Monday with communities devastated by a powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake that struck southern Philippines. The tectonic tremor hit at 7:37 a.m. off Sarangani on June 8, according to the Phivolcs, killing at least 32 people and injuring more than 100 others across different...
A new bishop has formally taken charge of a mission territory in the northern Philippines that had been “sede vacante” for about a year. Bishop Sean Mejia, 54, was ordained and installed as apostolic vicar of the Apostolic Vicariate of Tabuk during Mass at St. William’s...