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Let’s play spot the difference. The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) on Saturday engaged the Catholic faithful in a photo hunt to find the differences in the images of teenage Visayan martyr Blessed Pedro Calungsod and the first Filipino saint, San Lorenzo Ruiz.
The Baronial structure, with its mix of modern and Gothic architecture, never fails to attract attention and reverence.
The Vatican celebrated the 50th anniversary on Thursday of a Council that changed the face of Catholicism, as it tries to rekindle the religious fervour of the time amid rising secularism.
Our design for the Chapel of San Pedro Calungsod is meant as an homage to Cebu’s dynamic spirit. The building is grounded in the long history of ecclesiastical architecture wherein light and structure work together to inspire. And yet, the design is truly contemporary. It is both futuristic and contextual.
I caught the tail end of a wonderful era called Peace Time (or prewar, circa 1920-1940). My grandparents and parents lived peaceful and productive lives during those years, in what perhaps, was the most idealized Filipino community at the turn of the century.
Apostolic Nuncio Guiseppe Pinto installed Msgr. Renato Pine Mayugba as the new bishop of the Diocese of Laoag on Dec. 11, 9 a.m., at the Cathedral of St. William the Hermit.
Coming so swiftly on the heels of Christmas and the Slaughter of the Innocents, the annual Rizal Day holiday on Dec. 30 usually passes fleetingly by as just another blessed day off, before we all plunge merrily into the noisy revelries and inebriations of New Year’s Eve.
Catholic Church officials on Friday said the public should not judge people infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which causes the dreaded Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS).
In his first public Mass as the new head of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Francis signaled a striking liturgical difference with Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI by facing the people, not turning his back, which the retired Pontiff had done in a controversial attempt to bring back the Latin Mass banished by Vatican II.
A protestant who entered a Catholic church for the first time had the shock of his life when he saw the huge cross with the life-size body of Christ hanging—dead, bloody, hands and feet nailed on the cross.
