Church leaders have cautioned Filipino Catholics against confusing All Saints Day with the North American All Hallows Eve, or Halloween, when children and even adults dress up as ghosts and goblins for scare and fun.
As shameless politicians fill our streets with self-serving welcome posters, let us heed Pope Francis who has asked us to make his visit about Jesus and not about him.
The Archdiocese of Manila has issued a warning against bogus Facebook accounts purportedly of Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle appealing for donations.
The Catholic Church is embarking on a fundraising drive for the rehabilitation and renovation of the Pontificio Collegio Filippino, the home of Filipino priests-scholars undertaking further ecclesiastical studies at the heart of the Universal Church in Rome.
After the frenzy of the Black Nazarene procession, the attention of Filipino Catholics shifted to the Holy Child. All over the country, from Kalibo’s Ati-Atihan to Cebu’s Sinulog and Iloilo’s Dinagyang, Filipino Catholics dedicated the third Sunday of January to revering the Holy Child, more popularly known as the Santo Niño.
Saturday is the Day of the Holy Innocents, also known as Niños Inocentes. The feast, traditionally celebrated on Dec. 28, following Christmas, was instituted by the Latin Church in the 4th or 5th century.
