Last Monday and Tuesday, we were running the final session of our Principals, Supervisors and Teachers’ Formation Program for five public schools from one city.
Catholics tired of fish on Friday can enjoy a Lent-friendly smorgasbord in Nicaragua, where soups made with iguana or armadillo are served with a healthy portion of bull testicles.
This Sunday’s readings have faith as the central theme. We see in the first reading how faith sustained the chosen people from the Exodus to their entry into the promised land. Then in the second reading, St. Paul beautifully summarizes Abraham’s own journey of faith and how this bore fruit in his “descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sands on the seashore.”
The cause for the beatification of Servant of God Bishop Alfredo Verzosa, bishop of Lipa during the Lipa Apparitions in 1948, needs 30 witnesses, according to Sr. Julie Micosa, MCSH. There were already 14 witnesses who were interviewed by the tribunal working for the cause, she said.
“A radical traditionalist Pope.” Pope Francis drew this oxymoron of a headline in a column written by Mary Ebstat in the Oct. 7 issue of Time magazine.
It is with such exuberant and hopeful fondness for the new pope that many Catholics greet one another these days. Indeed, particularly for us borderline, estranged or otherwise marginalized members of the church, Francis is so easy to love.
Ireland's top drag queen, Miss Panti Bliss, has driven a stiletto heel through this nation's long-running debate on gay rights. Panti has riled up conservative Catholics and won global admirers in a social media tour de force that is dominating Irish water-cooler talk.
"Is anybody here baptized?" cries the preacher. "Amen!" roars back his flock as it sways to a hypnotic drum beat, part of a push by African Catholics to win back believers seduced away by the fast-growing Evangelical movement.
San Martin de Porres, patron of the sick and the poor, celebrates feast on Nov. 3
Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines is against the return of the death penalty.
