‘God never tires of forgiving’—Pope hears confessions at parish
VATICAN—On Friday evening last week Pope Francis traveled out of the Vatican to hear confessions and preside over a penitential service at St. Pius V Parish in Rome.
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VATICAN—On Friday evening last week Pope Francis traveled out of the Vatican to hear confessions and preside over a penitential service at St. Pius V Parish in Rome.
A Catholic bishop has expressed reservations about the Philippine police move to allow civilians to own semi-automatic rifles.
Ramadan in the Gaza Strip this year will be anything but “normal.”
The Vatican has granted permission to open the sainthood cause of a Filipino teenage girl, a Catholic bishop said.
If you are in a neighborhood with Muslims, chances are, on a particular period after midnight, you’ll hear voices and the banging of pots and pans. Something’s cooking (pun intended), obviously.
THE Papal Nuncio to the Philippines on Thursday paid tribute to the depth and richness of the Catholic faith in the Philippines, remarking as well on the “phenomenon of popular religiosity.”
Acclaimed Broadway singer and actress Lea Salonga and the equally world-renowned Utah, USA-based Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square wowed the full-house capacity audience at SM Mall of Asia (MOA) Arena with their praise and inspirational songs on February 27.
The head of the Catholic bishops in the country believes that the EDSA Shrine, a historic landmark built in remembrance of the 1986 bloodless revolution that toppled the Marcos dictatorship, may be declared a “national shrine.”
A Vatican official presented a “golden rose” from Pope Francis to Our Lady of Peace and Good Voyage, calling it a reminder for pilgrims of “the life of faith, hope and charity.”
The head of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) has been elected the next vice president of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences (FABC).
KATHMANDU, Nepal—Nepal’s gods and goddess are returning home.
VATICAN CITY—Five years ago this week, Pope Francis convened an unprecedented summit of bishops from around the world to impress on them that clergy sexual abuse was a global problem and that they needed to do something about it.
Some Catholic bishops accompanied protesters in Manila against the current attempts to tweak the Constitution.
The US Constitution doesn’t mention Christianity or any specific religion. The Declaration of Independence famously proclaims that people’s rights come from a “Creator” and “Nature’s God”—but doesn’t specify who that is.
Greece has become the first majority-Orthodox Christian nation to legalize same-sex marriage under civil law. At least for the near future, it will almost certainly be the only one.
A Nobel-prize winning biochemist and researcher, who helped develop the mRNA technology used to create the Pfizer and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines—Katalin Karikó—is one of the newest members of the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy for Life.
ANTIPOLO CITY—An official of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Evangelization will say Mass of Thanksgiving at the country’s first international shrine in Antipolo City on February 26.
‘Everyone, everyone,” Pope Francis said in Lisbon at the 2023 World Youth Day in August, and repeated on numerous other occasions to reiterate the principle of welcome at the heart of the Church’s pastoral mission.
The consecration rituals of the icon of Lord Rama were performed in a newly built mega-temple in the town of Ayodhya, India, on January 22. The prime minister of India, Narendra Modi, performed the rituals during a 48-minute period considered auspicious by Hindu astrologers.
NEW YORK—Even as Catholic dogma continues to repudiate same-sex marriage and gender transition, one of the most prominent religious orders in the United States—the Jesuits—is strengthening a unique outreach program for LGBTQ+ Catholics.
With Black Nazarene devotees spread throughout the world, a ranking church official said he wouldn’t be surprised if Quiapo Church would be declared an international shrine.
ROME—Pope Francis amended the Vatican’s financial regulations recently, enshrining a spending limit into law that requires Vatican offices to get permission before making large purchases.
KOTAGIRI, India—Sacred forests and groves are primeval woodlands that different faith communities around the world have safeguarded for centuries as abodes of the spiritual or the divine.
Pope Francis has declared a 16th-century church in the Diocese of Antipolo as a minor basilica, an honor only 23 churches have in the Philippines.
Pilgrims walking the famous Camino de Santiago have reached a new record in 2023, reaching nearly half a million people from around the world who hiked this historic route.
BANGKOK—A study issued recently by researchers collecting evidence of war crimes in Myanmar supported reports that air strikes by the military government damaged churches in the Buddhist-dominated country’s sole Christian-majority state.
The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) on Wednesday elected Bishop Jose Rapadas of Iligan as its head in promoting small Christian communities in the country.
VATICAN—Pope Francis has called Catholics to spend more time with the saving power of God’s Word as society and social media amplify “the violence of words.”
Pope Francis has granted the title of minor basilica to the National Shrine of La Virgen Divina Pastora in the northern city of Gapan, the oldest church in the Diocese of Cabanatuan.
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