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This year’s feast of La Naval de Manila is intended to remind the faithful that devotion should lead to social action, said the new rector of the National Shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary in Quezon City.
On July 1, 1993, on the eve of my laminectomy for an L4-L5 herniated disc, I smoked my last cigarette, seated on the ledge of the window in my hospital room. Since then, I have had no compelling desire to pick up the vice again after close to 22 years of enjoying it, a pack a day. I went cold turkey.
The day before deadline, I was driving to Manila when the 1971 revival of the 1965 hit “What the World Needs Now is Love” playing on the radio brought back memories.
Some 1,200 members of the Dominican family from the Asia-Pacific—friars, sisters, nuns, third-order, clerical fraternities and lay people—converged this week at the University of Santo Tomas for the Asia-Pacific Dominican Family Retreat.
A blessed and happy New Year! Today we celebrate the Feast of the Epiphany or the Feast of the Three Kings in olden days. We celebrate the manifestation of the Son, God made flesh, to the world.
The 4th World Apostolic Congress of Mercy (Wacom IV) will be held Jan. 16-20 in the Philippines.
One of the prescriptions for the Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy is a pilgrimage to designated churches. We can trace the roots of the tradition to Biblical times.
ON A RAINY day in 1984, one of my co-Jesuit novices told an elderly American Jesuit: “Father Paul, what a gloomy, rainy day.” The ever-cheerful Fr. Paul O’Brien, SJ, looked out and, with a smiling face, said: “Well, it’s a nice day for the ducks.”
In celebration of the 450th anniversary of the miraculous finding of the image of Santo Niño de Cebu, its pilgrim image will visit the Archdiocese of Manila and Diocese of San Pablo, Laguna, until Aug. 18.
POPE Francis’ new encyclical, “Laudato Si,” has generally been welcomed by the Philippine Church. “While the social encyclicals from...
