‘Yolanda’ aid drive turns to ‘Pedrito’
By Maricar B. Brizuela
“Pedrito” is the cute face of a Manila-based organization’s efforts to help victims of Supertyphoon “Yolanda.”
“Pedrito” is the cute face of a Manila-based organization’s efforts to help victims of Supertyphoon “Yolanda.”
Popes John Paul II and John XXIII will be declared saints on April 27 at a ceremony that might see two living popes honoring two dead ones.
Pope John XXIII, who will next year be made a saint with John Paul II, surprised many by leading the Catholic Church to more open relations with the world.
Pope John Paul II, who the Vatican said on Monday will be made a saint in April 2014 along with John XXIII, was an inspirational figure who helped topple communism but alienated many with his conservative views.
The Vatican on Monday said late popes John Paul II and John XXIII would be made saints at an unprecedented joint ceremony on April 27, 2014 in a bid to unite Catholic conservatives and liberals.
Vatican theologians have attributed a second miracle to pope John Paul II, putting him firmly on the path to sainthood, the ANSA news agency reported Tuesday.
THE P50 commemorative bills bearing the image of Saint Pedro Calungsod is more than just a collector’s item.
President Benigno Aquino III, Vice President Jejomar Binay and Interior Secretary Mar Roxas on Friday led other government officials and more than a million devotees in a National Thanksgiving Mass for the canonization of St. Pedro Calungsod.
Wilmark Recomes was only 16 when he first portrayed the role of Pedro Calungsod, the Visayan teenage martyr who was elevated to sainthood in a Vatican ceremony on Oct. 20.
Age should not be a hindrance to serving God, the bishop of the Diocese of Pasig said, as the city welcomed the image of St. Pedro Calungsod yesterday.
The legacy of San Pedro Calungsod doesn’t end with his canonization.
Church bells pealed across the Catholic Philippines Sunday as millions attended special Masses to celebrate the naming of the country’s second saint, a young missionary killed over 340 years ago.
A second miracle attributed to late pope John Paul II has been reported and he could be made a saint soon, said Italy’s Panorama weekly on Thursday, citing documents sent to the Vatican.
