Bishop Labajo assumes historic role as first bishop of Prosperidad
“This is your servant, Ruben Caballero Labajo, reporting for duty.”
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Church mourns death of priest who championed indigenous rights
Fr. Pedro “Pete” Montallana, a prominent figure in the opposition to the
Vatican official urges Filipinos to trust only in God, resist false power
A visiting Vatican official on Sunday urged Filipino Catholics to resist the temptation of seeking false power and to place their trust solely in God.
At Vatican jubilee, Pope Francis skips prepared text for heart-to-heart with journalists
“Communication means stepping outside ourselves a bit to give something of
To proclaim vision for those who cannot see and glad tidings for the poor
Third Sunday in Ordinary Time January 26, 2025 By Fr. Agustin Opalalic
Seafarers charity hails release of 17 Filipinos taken hostage in Yemen
Stella Maris-Philippines is celebrating the safe return of 17 Filipino seafarers who
FULL TEXT: Pope Francis’ message for World Day of Social Communications 2025
In these our times, characterized by disinformation and polarization, as a few centres of power control an unprecedented mass of data and information, I would like to speak to you as one who is well aware of the importance – now more than ever – of your work as journalists and communicators. As a result, we witness, often helplessly, a sort of atomization of interests that ends up undermining the foundations of our existence as community, our ability to join in the pursuit of the common good, to listen to one another and to understand each other’s point of view. As Pope Benedict XVI noted in the Encyclical Spe Salvi, hope is not passive optimism but, on the contrary, a “performative” virtue capable of changing our lives: “The one who has hope lives differently; the one who hopes has been granted the gift of a new life’ (No.
Pope Francis taps new Cardinal Koovakad to lead Interreligious Dialogue dicastery
Pope Francis has appointed his personal travel agent and new cardinal, George Jacob Koovakad, to lead the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue, following the death last year of Cardinal Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot. Interreligious dialogue has been a priority of Pope Francis’ pontificate, as demonstrated by his trips to non-Christian majority countries and the “Document on Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together,” signed in Abu Dhabi in 2019. Koovakad helped organize several of Pope Francis’ religious dialogue-focused trips, including to Kazakhstan and Bahrain in 2022, to Mongolia in 2023, and to Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, East Timor, and Singapore in September 2024.
Vatican official to grace Loyola School of Theology’s silver jubilee celebrations
The Loyola School of Theology (LST) will celebrate its silver jubilee as an ecclesiastical faculty with a visit by a
Italian nun Raffaella Petrini to head Vatican Governorate
In less than a month and a half, Pope Francis will install Franciscan nun
