Catholics in Palawan will launch a year-long commemoration of the 400th anniversary of Christianization of the island on August 28. The celebration will take center stage at the St. Augustine Church in Cuyo town, the oldest parish in the entire province. Founded by Spanish Augustinian missionaries in...
A Catholic parish church in central Philippines has been declared as the country’s first archdiocesan shrine dedicated to St. Rose of Lima. In a decree signed on July 19 and was made public yesterday, Aug. 13, Archbishop Jose Palma of Cebu approved the petition to elevate...
“Ang hijab ay isa sa mga simbolo ng pananampalataya para sa mga kababaihang Muslim, ngunit nakakalungkot na ito rin ang nagiging dahilan ng kanilang diskriminasyon. Hangad natin ang mas malalim na pang-unawa at kamulatan tungkol sa pagsusuot ng hijab sa hanay ng ating mga kapatid...
[gallery size="full" ids="36334,36335,36336"] The Episcopal Commission on Seminaries under the Catholic Bishop’s Conference of the Philippines held a one-month program for the Seminary Formators all over the Philippines at the St. Michael Retreat House in Antipolo beginning July 1 until 31, 2022 where our very own...
Thousands of people attended the thanksgiving Mass and promulgation of the decree of Venerable Teofilo Camomot’s heroic virtue. The Mass was presided over by the papal nuncio, Archbishop Charles Brown, at a chapel inside the Daughters of St.Teresa (DST) mother house compound in Carcar City. The promulgation...
A major relic of the Italian-born teenager Blessed Carlo Acutis, the first millennial to be considered for sainthood, has arrived in the Diocese of Malolos. Bishop Dennis Villarojo led in welcoming the relic, ex corpore et ex capillis (from the body and hair), with a Mass...
A Catholic bishop encouraged young Catholics to courageously proclaim the Gospel, “even when people do not want to listen or refuse to hear”. Speaking during Mass on the first day of the World Youth Congress in Silang, Cavite on Saturday, Bishop Reynaldo Evangelista of Imus said...
One of the most treasured Filipino values is “Utang na Loob” or debt of gratitude. A favor that we received after every possible means had been exhausted, when we are at the end of the road and at the point of no return, absolutely makes...
The Vatican has formally designated the Archdiocesan Shrine of St. Anne in Taguig City as a minor basilica, one of the 20 churches in the country to have received such honor. Bishop Mylo Hubert Vergara of Pasig said the designation means that the 19-year-old diocese will...
[gallery size="full" ids="36031,36032,36033,36034"] Last July 4, 2022 Monday, was the first day of the National Synodal Consultation held at the Carmelite Missionaries Retreat House in Tagaytay City which lasted until Thursday, July 7. Invited were 87 lay delegates from the different (Arch)Dioceses and the Military Ordinariate...