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Pope Francis may just have a taste of the local delicacies during his lunch with the survivors of Supertyphoon “Yolanda” at the archbishop’s residence here.
Pope Francis listed 15 “ailments” of the Vatican Curia during his annual Christmas greetings to the cardinals, bishops and priests who run the central administration of the 1.2-billion strong Catholic Church. Here’s the list.
Students from 19 Catholic schools in southern Metro Manila will have the privilege of performing a dance number for Pope Francis upon his arrival at Villamor Air Base on Jan. 15.
The “Vatican official” who is helping Pope Francis practice and polish his English for his apostolic visit to Sri Lanka and the Philippines next week is American Greg Burke, a former Time magazine and Fox News journalist who has been working with the Vatican State Secretariat as communications adviser since 2012 during the papacy of Benedict XVI.
The millions of people who will attend Pope Francis’ concluding Mass at Rizal Park on Jan. 18 will hear, for the first time, a Eucharistic celebration using the Philippines’ seven major languages apart from English.
Papal visit organizers realize that it will be a huge challenge for everyone to participate fully in the liturgies of Pope Francis when he visits the Philippines from Jan. 16 to 19.
Room accommodations in luxury and boutique hotels lining the so-called “golden mile” of Roxas Boulevard that stretches 4.6 kilometers, from Manila to the border of Pasay City, are sold out in time for Pope Francis’ visit to the country later this week.
Performing the theme song for Pope Francis’ visit on two official events gives singer-songwriter Jamie Rivera no assurance that she will get anywhere near the Pontiff.
On behalf of the Filipino people, President Benigno Aquino III has gifted Pope Francis with a wood sculpture of Our Lady, the Undoer of Knots, to which the Pontiff is known to have a special devotion.
On a recent busy evening in one of the Philippines' top malls, shoppers wandered through luxury brand shops while prostitutes sat expectantly at a bar and a priest gave a sermon at a chapel.
