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  • Lumads call for end to martial law

    Lumads call for end to martial law

    CBCPNews,

    Lumads coming from different areas in Mindanao recently converged in Davao, calling for an end to martial law, which President Rodrigo Duterte recently wants lawmakers to extend by another 60 days.

  • Faithful reminded: Scapulars aren’t amulets

    Faithful reminded: Scapulars aren’t amulets

    CBCPNews,

    A former head of the Order of Discalced Carmelites (OCD) in the Philippines reminded devotees of the brown scapular who flocked to the National Shrine of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel in Broadway, Q.C. fo…

  • A sign of contradiction

    A sign of contradiction

    CBCPNews,

    IT’S an expression that is first of all referred to Christ before it is referred to anyone who chooses to follow Christ. That’s, of course, all of us who call ourselves Christians and strive to be …

  • Knowing, loving and living by the Church law

    Knowing, loving and living by the Church law

    CBCPNews,

    He also said that the liturgical laws, which should be given primacy among the canonical norms since they safeguard the most sacred realities in the Church, are being undermined, due to some misinterpretation of the spirit of Vatican II. It would be good if there be a sustained effort to make more and more people to be familiar with the Code of Canon Law, explaining and clarifying the different canons slowly, and showing how these canons are actually relevant to our daily struggles to seek sanctity especially in the middle of our very secularized world today. To mention a few of these scandals, we can cite the notorious sexual scandals involving clerics, the breakdown of discipline in priestly formation and priestly life, the abandonment of essential elements of religious life and the loss of fundamental direction in many congregations of religious sisters, brothers and priests; the loss of the Catholic identity of charitable, education and healthcare institutions.