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Church experts will meet in study groups to examine the question of women deacons and other key topics through June 2025 — well beyond the Oct. 27 conclusion of the final assembly of the Synod on S…
Pepe Quitorio, after declaring a brief respite from its regular monthly meeting at the scenic mini-forest called Hiyas ng Kalikasan, nestled right in the heart of San Narciso, Zambales, trooped to PAWICARE to listen to lectures about sea turtles (“pawikans) and to witness the release of ninety (90) newly-born hatchlings. Sea turtles are reptiles, a clan of vertebrate animals that have survived for more than 200 million years and have been alive longer than mammals, birds, crocodiles, snakes, and lizards. By dictates of nature, mother sea turtles after traveling in so many parts of the world’s oceans, return to their birthplace to lay their eggs and marine scientists call this process “natal homing” or “natal philopatry.”I call this “natal homing” one of God’s miracles.
A Catholic bishop in Bohol encouraged the faithful to protect the province’s “unique gifts” following the controversy surrounding a resort built within the iconic Chocolate Hills.
A Catholic bishop claimed to have discovered the secret to being happy at all times, regardless of the situation.
(Gaudium et Spes #20) Pope Francis further says, and this has been repeatedly quoted: “I dream of a “missionary option”, that is, a missionary impulse capable of transforming everything, so that the Church’s customs, ways of doing things, times and schedules, language and structures can be suitably channeled for the evangelization of today’s world rather than for her self-preservation.” (Gaudium Evangelii #27) This is to avoid a kind of ‘ecclesial introversion’ The invitation is just not simply reform, but rather, a journey to conversion. Alvin Toffler once said, and this can be related to our Synodal efforts: “The illiterate of the twenty-first century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.” Back in the 1990’s, during the Second Plenary Council of the Philippines, it was already said: “The pilgrim, however, is not only an individual, but rather an entire people. By reason of our pilgrimage to the kingdom of God, we need to change our own hearts and the social, economic, political and cultural systems that have promoted massive poverty and inequity.” (PCP II #273) Synodality invites us to revisit our aspirations as a Church in the Second Plenary Council of the Philippines.
The Philippine Hierarchy, as early as 1954 up until the present, has always maintained and defended the official Catholic (magisterial) position on the unacceptability of Masonry, given its serious…
After an investigation by a group of experts, “fervent” prayer, and “attentive discernment,” an Italian bishop has decreed that the alleged apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Trevignano Romano, a to…
