An alliance of religious groups in the country has expressed disappointment and frustration over the three-year-old Aquino administration particularly for its supposed failure to punish the corrupt and resolve cases of human rights violations.
Malacañang is not in the mood to engage retired Archbishop Oscar Cruz in a “Chika Minute” discussion of the rumored plan of President Benigno Aquino III’s youngest sister to run for public office in 2016.
Don’t have yourselves crucified. The head of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) on Tuesday urged devout Filipinos not to have themselves nailed to a cross, not unlike Jesus Christ, during Holy Week.
The Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) has been asked to end its “Team Buhay and Team Patay” campaign.
Once a priest, always a priest. It depends on their bishop if they will be allowed to return to their congregation to perform their canonical duties. —Father Francis Lucas, executive director of the Episcopal Commission on Social Communication and Mass Media of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines, on members of the clergy who [...]
Will you give up your favorite teleserye (soap opera) to observe Lent?
“I’m not sacred and I’m not a cow.” This was the reaction of Agrarian Reform Secretary Virgilio de los Reyes to Fr. Edu Gariguez, executive secretary of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines-National Secretariat for Social Action (CBCP-Nassa).
After going head to head with the Aquino administration over the reproductive health measure, the country’s Catholic bishops are taking issue with the government on another one of their obsessions.
I HOPE that the rumor going the rounds about Commissioner Elias Yusoph of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) is not true. The rumor says that Yusoph, in charge of giving out exemptions to the gun ban, favors his relatives, friends, bodyguards of fellow Comelec commissioners and fellow Muslims.
What’s wrong with President Aquino fielding senatorial candidates from powerful political families?
Commission on Elections Chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr. on Wednesday said they would try to cope with whatever deficiencies they have to make sure this year’s elections will be ‘‘better enhanced.’’
A lawmaker on Wednesday lauded the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) for backing a measure which sought to put an end to political dynasties.
For the first time in recent history, the country’s Roman Catholic bishops have come out with a pastoral statement denouncing political dynasties, powerful and influential families in the government and vowing to support any popular initiative to pass a law that would put an end to them.
