Faith still shapes morals, values even after people are ‘done’ with religion
Religion forms a moral foundation for billions of people throughout the world.
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Religion forms a moral foundation for billions of people throughout the world.
“What’s in a name?” Juliet asks in Shakespeare’s tragedy, “that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” Often misinterpreted to suggest that words are empty of content, Shakespeare’s line does the exact opposite: it affirms that a reality exists behind words and, indeed, gives rise to them.
VATICAN—Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle choked up Tuesday while sharing the story of his grandfather’s migration journey from China to the Philippines as a child.
Pope Francis recently recalled a favorite imagery of a pastor, urging that priests be “shepherds with the ‘smell of the sheep,’” grounded in the situation of their flock.
SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, Spain—Committing to the pilgrim’s path has for centuries been a source of renewal for those willing to put their lives on hold and spend days, weeks or even months crossing Spain along the Camino de Santiago, a journey that takes hikers to the reported burial place of the apostle St. James.
The venerated image of Mater Dolorosa de Capas was canonically crowned on June 5 by Archbishop Charles John Brown, apostolic nuncio to the Philippines, at a Mass at the San Sebastian Cathedral in Tarlac City.
The country’s largest association of Catholic educators will confer the “Pro Deo et Patria” award posthumously on Fr. Joaquin G. Bernas, SJ, and Sr. Maria Anunciata Sta. Ana, SPC.
Around a hundred Catholic priests took part in a “penitential walk” on the streets of Quiapo and Sta. Cruz in Manila last Tuesday and prayed for the country’s protection amid the Covid-19 crisis.
A Muslim boy prays before taking a swim in the Moroccan northern town of Fnideq, near the border of Morocco and Spain, at the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, on May 18.
Pope Francis has appointed a Filipino archbishop as the Vatican’s ambassador to the Holy Land, the birthplace of Christianity.
Maryknoll priest James Jay Timothy Thomas Patrick Paul Ferry, vicar for the religious of the Archdiocese of Manila, died of pneumonia on May 28. He was 95.
VATICAN—The Vatican published recently major revisions to Book VI of the Code of Canon Law, which covers penal law in the Church, including sanctions related to clerical sexual abuse.
VATICAN—Pope Francis launched the Vatican’s seven-year Laudato si’ action plan to implement environmental sustainability in different sectors of the Church, including the religious orders, Catholic schools and hospitals.
SÃO PAULO, Brazil—Daniel Neves, a 13-year-old boy who painted pictures of the saints and the Blessed Virgin Mary to help to pay for his medical treatment, died May 18 after being hospitalized for almost two weeks with Covid-19.
Fr. Eliseo “Jun” Mercado, a longtime Mindanao peace advocate, died Sunday due to heart attack.
Manila’s Catholic clergy will lead a fasting and “penitential walk” to implore God’s mercy amid the prevailing Covid-19 pandemic in the country.
The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) on Tuesday released the prayer for the upcoming National Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
AN expression of the Church’s closeness to the suffering people of Myanmar, Pope Francis joined Burmese Catholics for the celebration of Mass last Sunday.
PATRIARCH Pierbattista Pizzaballa has urged Catholics worldwide to pray for “peace and justice,” as violence continues to rock the Holy Land.
AMID the prevailing community quarantine, Caritas Manila will be giving away another round of gift certificates (GCs) to Manila’s less-privileged.
BERLIN—Germany’s powerful Catholic progressives are openly defying a recent Holy See pronouncement that priests cannot bless same-sex unions by offering such blessings at services in about 100 different churches all over the country.
VATICAN—Pope Francis said last Wednesday that persistent prayer can lead to miracles “because prayer goes directly to the heart of the tenderness of God.”
The Philippine Catholic bishops will reconsecrate the nation to the care of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
The head of the Vatican’s doctrine office is warning US bishops to deliberate carefully and minimize divisions before proceeding with a possible plan to rebuke Roman Catholic politicians, such as President Joe Biden, for receiving Communion even though they support abortion rights.
Cardinal Jose Advincula, the archbishop-elect of Manila, will receive his “red hat,” called a biretta, in a ceremony at the Immaculate Conception Metropolitan Cathedral in Roxas City on May 28.
President Joe Biden is the highest-profile and most powerful lay Catholic in American life today—but he also holds policy views that diverge from many Catholic bishops. And that is causing some problems.
ZENICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina—Groups of men are preparing for long hours of hard labor deep underground in a trouble-plagued coal mine in Bosnia’s central city of Zenica.
The Association of Major Religious Superiors in the Philippines (AMRSP) is changing its name after 50 years.
VATICAN—As part of a sweeping new anticorruption law, Pope Francis on Thursday declared that officials of the Roman Curia should no longer accept personal gifts with a monetary value over €40 (about $50).
Philippine Catholic bishops have placed the nation under the special patronage of St. Joseph on May 1, his feast day.
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