An encounter with the five oldest churches in Batanes leaves one with the feeling that neither storm and winds nor isolation and time could extinguish the flame of faith that lives within the island’s people.
Due to the elevation of Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio Tagle to the cardinalate, the 25th Eucharistic Congress where he’s one of the speakers has been rescheduled. The new date will be announced soon.
There we were—Vic Lactaoen, a fellow writer, and I sniffling because we were crying while watching the film, “There be Dragons,” at the SM Mall of Asia Premiere cinema. Written and directed by Roland Joffe (believed to be an agnostic), the film tells the life of Father Josemaria Escriva (played by British actor Charlie Cox) during the Spanish Civil War in 1936 and his escape with members of Opus Dei to Andorra through the Pyrenees mountains which divide Spain and France.
The Shrine of Nuestra Señora del Santisimo Rosario, La Naval de Manila, at Santo Domingo Church features a musical masterpiece with much historical value—the 76-year-old organ that makes use of over a thousand pipes. The musical instrument, a cultural heritage, is set to undergo restoration. To raise funds for the expensive restoration, the officials of [...]
LIPA ARCHBISHOP Ramon Arguelles said that Blessed John Paul II is “a great intercessor of Filipinos.” Arguelles said that when he was rector of the Collegio Filippino before he became a bishop in 1994, Pope John Paul would always show how he cared about the Filipino priests studying in Rome. And during papal audiences, the [...]
HOW much does it take to alter a mindset and to change a life? How far can loose change go to lift up a family, empower a community and possibly even release the nation from a cycle of debt and dependency? One man did the math and came up with amazingly simple answers. To the [...]
