When my siblings and I were planning our big European trip last year, it was unanimous that the most time should be spent in Spain. Though none of us had ever been there, Spain held this certain allure that we couldn’t resist.
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.
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.
On the cover of the Nov. 10, 1958 issue of Time magazine was Pope John XXIII, elected pope on Oct. 28, 1958 and installed on Nov. 4 of the same year. I have always had an affinity to Pope John for his courage in convening the Second Vatican Council in 1962, a move that ushered in an unprecedented renewal of the Roman Catholic Church.
Sunday is the grand fiesta of Nuestra Señora de Guia, patroness of Ermita, thus commemorating the finding of the image on May 19, 1571, by a Spanish soldier when Adelantado Miguel de Legazpi landed in Manila.
Editor’s note: As a tribute to Josephine Darang, who passed away Dec. 28, 2014, feast of St. John the...
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.
Tucked in a dark shelf somewhere in the Archdiocesan Office of Communication of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Manila in Intramuros is a mint-condition back issue of Penthouse magazine.
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).
It is the time of the year again when pilgrims go up the hill of San Jose in Tarlac to attend the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross on Sept. 14.