Quiapo Church elevated as ‘Archdiocesan Shrine of the Black Nazarene’
The St. John the Baptist Parish or Quiapo Church has been elevated to the status of an archdiocesan shrine.
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Dumaguete diocese asks Marcos to veto creation of Negros region
Catholic Church leaders in Negros Oriental penned an open letter urging President Ferdinand Marcos Jr to veto the measure that would create the Negros Island Region (NIR).
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Catholic Church by the numbers: More Catholics but fewer vocations
The number of Catholics worldwide increased by 14 million in 2022, according to the Vatican’s 2022 Statistical Yearbook of the Church released earlier this month and highlighted in a report by the …
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UST opens campus in Mindanao
Bishop Cerilo Alan Casicas of Marbel and Dominican Prior Provincial Fr. Filemon dela Cruz Jr on Thursday solemnly inaugurated the first major expansion of the University of Santo
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The journey to clean energy
Five years ago, thousands of young people, members and leaders of the Church community, civil society groups, grassroots communities, and advocates mobilized and won a provincial declaration to keep Negros Occidental coal-free.This win, of course, was a continuation of Negrosanon’s decades-long history of pushing back against dirty energy from fossil fuels and destructive industries. Readers, may our prayers and thoughts be filled with the plight of those who suffer the most from the impacts of our intensely changing climate; at the same time, may our actions and words serve to lend help directly or to urge for action from our leaders in government responsible for disasters responses and climate action. There are also still those voicing out in public false notions that fossil fuel facilities should be allowed to enter Negros to ensure our energy security, even though it is fossil fuel facilities that are causing power woes in our own island and neighboring provinces.
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The pursuit for unity
How do we achieve unity, a desired ideal, amid an obvious plurality we can observe even in each one of us individually, not to mention the ever-widening variety of things among ourselves and between ourselves and the rest of creation? Equally undeniable is the plurality that we have to contend with, not only of the different parts we are made of individually, but also of the different views, opinions, tastes and preferences, cultures, lifestyles, etc., that we have to learn to live with among ourselves in the different levels of our collective life. Absent that religious essence of unity, we would be reprising the story of the tower of Babel where a godless pursuit of unity and development produced disunity and confusion instead, leading to the unavoidable consequences of conflicts and wars among the people.
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Caritas PH voices concern over plan to scrap Masungi Georeserve deal
Caritas Philippines, the Catholic Church’s social action and advocacy arm, has raised concerns about a plan to cancel the agreement that established the Masungi Georeserve Project.
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Negros Occidental church closes after desecration
A Catholic parish church in Negros Occidental province was temporarily closed after it was “desecrated” on Wednesday.
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Imus diocese to host first Nat’l Vocation Festival
The Diocese of Imus, south of Manila, will host the inaugural national festival to promote vocations in the country.
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Bishop offers prayers, solidarity with quake-hit Taiwan
A Filipino Catholic bishop has expressed his sorrow and solidarity with Taiwan following a devastating earthquake that struck the East Asian nation.
