Filipino Catholicism

During their January-February meeting in 1968, the same meeting during which what was then the "Catholic Welfare Organization" (C...

On September 5, 2014 the President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines (CBCP), Archbishop Socrates Villegas, cal...

I largely abandoned posting on this blog towards the end of 2012, with only desultory posting afterwards. I stopped blogging due to some he...

Fr. Francis Gustilo SDB is the sole current Filipino member of the International Theological Commission and the third-ever Filipino to have...

This speech also marks the first time that the Pope has delivered an English-language speech in public. Post by News.va English . ...

I originally posted this on October 5, 2012 as "Two Philippine church organs in action". In commemoration of the churches lost du...

Since 2005, Defensores Fidei Foundation has held an annual Apologetics Seminar introducing Filipino Catholics to the whys and hows of C...

Belen scene from the "Belenismo" exhibit in Tarlac City in 2009.  Source for the picture: Dennis Capulong's blog . ...

Note: Some have asked me why I did not count Ven. Isabel Larranaga Ramirez (1836 - 1899) as the "first" Filipino venerable. Here ...

The Diocese of Palo was erected on November 28, 1937 and raised to an Archdiocese on November 15, 1982. As such, November 2012 marked the 7...

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The consistory for the formal elevation to the cardinalate of the Church's six newest Cardinals, including the Archbishop of Manila, Lui...

January 31, 1920 - November 20, 2012.  The first bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Pablo (Laguna, Philippines) has died. H...

Tomorrow, the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom will be celebrated by a Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest, the Rt Rev. Mitrat Olexande...

Consecration of the Philippines to the Sacred Heart of Jesus by President Ramon Magsaysay, December 2, 1956.  Picture scanned from the sou...

The Vatican Press Office has just announced the forthcoming elevation , on November 24, 2012, of six prelates to the cardinalate, among the...

This is the ceremony where St. Pedro Calungsod and six others were canonized. The broadcast is from the US, hence the focus on St. Kateri...

The section of the Pope's homily during the canonization Mass regarding St. Pedro Calungsod: From the website of Rome Reports comes...

(10/22/12 - I've replaced the original picture in this post with the following photo from News.Va) St. Pedro Calungsod, pray t...