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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Make Christ our light in 2019
A Very Happy and Healthy New Year! I believe that a healthy person is happy and is at peace with the Lord. The year 2018 may have brought us sorrows and frustrations, but let them be drowned by the…
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This thing called being new
Each year it is the same greeting: “Happy New Year!” But wait. Is life not an invisible circle, time’s inescapably spiraling web or a veritably repetitious cycle that brings us where we first took …
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Let’s beam with hope
Let’s try our best to be men and women of hope, of real, great and abiding hope, which means that we have a clear vision of our ultimate goal in life and are confident that with God’s grace and our…
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Launching the Year of the Youth
The Philippine Church is now on the seventh year of its nine-year journey towards 2021, the 500th anniversary of the arrival of Christianity in the Philippines.
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Good politics: A way to peace
Every year, for 52 years now, the Holy Father gives a reflection on peace on New Year’s Day as his message for the celebration of the World Day for Peace. This year the message of Pope Francis is e…
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Order may censure for disobedience nun who protested rape-accused bishop
The superior general of the Franciscan Clarist Congregation issued last week a letter of warning to Sister Lucy Kalapura, who has been accused of several acts of disobedience, including a protest o…
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Small, well-funded LGBT group to challenge Catholic teaching at World Youth Day
A U.S.-based coalition of dissenting Catholics, whose backers include wealthy non-Catholic funders, is sending a small group of LGBT activists to World Youth Day in Panama to engage with media and …
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Pope says it’s ‘grave sin’ to deny God has blessed other Christians
Just as divisions in society grow when wealth is not shared, divisions within Christianity grow when the richness of gifts God has given to one Christian church or community are not recognized and …
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Crowd comes to march for different reasons but same message: Defend life
The ritual sights of the annual March for Life never seem to change.
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Manila bishop rallies faithful to defend Catholic faith
On the feast of the child Jesus, a Catholic bishop has rallied the faithful not only to deepen their Christian faith but to defend it like how they would their children.
