A Marian image in Antipolo City will soon become the seventh pontifically crowned image of the Virgin Mary in the diocese. Antipolo Bishop Ruperto C. Santos announced that the image of the Nuestra Señora dela Annunciata, enshrined in the Boso-Boso Parish church in the upland Sitio Boso-Boso in...
Dave West, left, and his brother Larry West, both of Fort Worth, Texas, demonstrate outside the hotel where the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops are meeting in Dallas on June 14. 2002. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File) ROME (AP) — Survivors of clergy sexual abuse urged the Vatican on...
A pilgrim says a prayer next to the statue of the Virgin Mary in Medjugorje, Bosnia, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Armin Durgut) VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican on Thursday gave the green light for Catholics to continue flocking to a southern Bosnian village where children reported...
Diocese of Pasig Bishop Mylo Hubert Vergara announced that the Vatican has approved the inquiry into the cause for sainthood of Laureana Franco, a lay catechist from the Diocese of Pasig. Laureana “Ka Luring“ Franco (Photo courtesy of Veritas News Asia) In a Catholic Bishops’ Conference of...
The Vatican has called on the Filipino public to listen to their pastors regarding their stand on divorce as the measure legalizing it recently received approval from the House of Representatives. Archbishop Paul Gallagher, The Holy See's Secretary for Relations with States who made an official...
Vatican's foreign minister on Tuesday, July 2, made the first ever trip to the Philippines for talks with President Marcos and Foreign Affairs Secretary Enrique Manalo that included the West Philippine Sea, other regional conflicts and bilateral ties between Manila and the Holy See. Archbishop Paul...
To try to stop the negativity on Catholic Twitter and other social media sites, the Vatican released a pastoral reflection to guide people on how "love your neighbor" instead. (Photo from Pixabay) As posted on CBCP News on Tuesday, May 30, the Vatican released "Towards Full Presence: A Pastoral...
VATICAN CITY, Holy See -- The Catholic Church took a fresh step Thursday in acknowledging abuse endured by Indigenous peoples with the Vatican formally rejecting 15th-century papal edicts that empowered Europeans to colonise non-Christian lands. During a trip to Canada last July, Pope Francis faced...
VATICAN CITY, Holy See - Pope Francis offered condolences Wednesday to the Nashville school devastated by a deadly shooting, condemning the "senseless act of violence" and urging the community to have faith faced with "unspeakable evil". A telegram signed by Vatican Secretary of State Pietro...
VATICAN CITY, Holy See – A message of faith and hope first delivered by Pope Francis in the middle of the 2020 coronavirus lockdown will be sent into space, the Vatican announced Monday. Pope Francis (AFP/File) The speech of the pontiff praying alone in an empty St Peter's...
VATICAN CITY, Holy See -- Pope Francis on Saturday extended a 2019 law to fight sexual abuse in the Church by making lay Catholic leaders responsible for acts committed under their watch in Vatican-approved bodies. A letter, directly sent by the pontiff, also said that vulnerable adults can be...
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. joined the Catholic faithful in celebrating the declaration of the Antipolo Cathedral as an international shrine. "Nakikiisa tayo sa kapwa nating Katoliko sa pagdiriwang sa deklarasyon ng Vatican sa Antipolo Cathedral bilang kauna-unahang international...
