The municipality of Angono in the province of Rizal is highly urbanized now, no longer the pastoral town of old;...
In former Sen. Manny Villar’s book, the Philippines has produced three saints: San Lorenzo Ruiz, San Pedro Calungsod and San Ezekiel Moreno. He and his wife Sen. Cynthia Villar honored the latter by building a Catholic church named after him.
This column welcomes the appointment of Archbishop Orlando Quevedo, OMI, of South Cotabato as the Philippines’ newest cardinal. He is the first Ilocano cardinal, having hailed from Sarrat, Ilocos Norte.
Dominic Atillo and Maria Lyza Neumann were married in what was one of the most elegant weddings of the season, held at the Chapel of San Pedro Calungsod in the Cebu City South Road Properties.
The images of San Pedro Calungsod, the second Filipino saint, and Our Lady of Peñafrancia, patroness of Bicol, have been approved by the Vatican to be placed in the crypt of St. Peter’s Basilica.
Saint Pedro Calungsod, of course, belongs not just to Cebu but to the Philippines. The same can be said of San Lorenzo Ruiz of Binondo, Manila.
Francis O. Villacorta’s historical drama “San Pedro Calungsod, Batang Santo” tells the story of the young Visayan-Filipino from the 17th century who was canonized on Oct. 21, 2012, at St. Peter’s Square, Vatican City, and became the second Filipino saint in history.
Preparing for the first International Global Peace Interfaith Conference at the Manila Hotel on April 18, 19 and 20, 2013, is a tall order for the organizers, headed by Basil Archbishop Deogracias Flores of the Eglise Orthodoxie d’Europe and the Catholic Clergy, such as Fr. Alex Benedicto, SJ; Fr. Luke Moortgat, CICM; and Fr. Efren de Guzman, SVD.
