Several Catholic bishops said on Wednesday they were saddened that vote-buying worsened during the May 13 elections, an indication that the Catholic Church should boost its efforts to educate voters amid a nation facing values crisis.
A Supreme Court justice with strong ties to the Catholic Church has been assigned to handle the petition questioning the constitutionality of the controversial Reproductive Health Law.
Catholic leaders lambasted on Saturday the “secrecy” that shrouded President Aquino’s signing of the reproductive health (RH) bill into law and vowed to “exhaust all legal remedies” to have it repealed.
Catholic Church officials in the Visayas said the move to push for the approval of the divorce bill was not surprising as it has been part of the culture of DEATH (referring to moves to legalize divorce, euthanasia, abortion, “total population control” and “homosexual union”) worming its way into the life of Filipinos.
More than half of Filipino Catholics have not gotten married in churches, according to a survey conducted by Radio Veritas, a Catholic-run radio station and this could be because church weddings are deemed costly.
Some members of the Catholic Church hierarchy were not impressed with a priest running for governor in Masbate in the 2013 midterm elections, calling it a betrayal of his “spiritual calling.”
A leader of the Justice for Fr. Pops Movement called on the new secretary of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) to fulfill the promise made by former Interior Secretary Jesse Robredo to look into the operations of the paramilitary group Bagani, following threats to his life.
AT least 50 Cebu diocesan priests will be going to Rome for the Oct. 21 canonization rites of Blessed Pedro Calungsod.
The social arm of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) has decided to take a new tack in cheering up the thousands of refugees from last week’s widespread flooding: scrapping the usual relief packages and letting them choose between cash or voucher to get what they really need.
The national police force is looking for a few good men and women, especially doctors, lawyers and priests. The Philippine National Police (PNP) has announced 75 vacancies for professionals who may wish to join the ranks of commissioned officers in the 140,000-strong force.
Five priests were deemed unsuitable for ministry because of substantiated allegations of sexual abuse or other inappropriate conduct, Philadelphia’s Roman Catholic archbishop said Friday.
WE are sorry. Cebu Archbishop Jose Palma asked forgiveness for “our faults and failures” as he led Cebuano clergy in their renewal of priestly vows at the Cebu Metropolitan Cathedral yesterday.
The Catholic Church has agreed anew to deploy priests as chaplains in the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), 40 years after it stopped doing so.
