Manila (Philippine Daily Inquirer/ANN) - Philippine President Benigno Aquino III is set to announce his administration¿s new mining policy today but the Catholic Bishops¿ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) has already started a signature ca...
Manila (Philippine Daily Inquirer/ANN) - Philippine President Benigno Aquino III is set to announce his administration¿s new mining policy today but the Catholic Bishops¿ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) has already started a signature ca...

I’d been trying to find time in my four-year stay in Rome to have an encounter with his eminence, Jose Cardinal Sanchez. Rome became his home for 25 years. But we never met in Rome because on December 2010, he decided to go home to the Philippines...
By Philippine Catholic News on May 16, 2011 in:
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A NEW Vatican instruction calls on local bishops and pastors to respond generously to Catholics who seek celebration of the Mass according to the 1962 Roman Missal, commonly known as the Tridentine rite.Read more...
By Philippine Catholic News on May 16, 2011 in:
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THE practice of abstaining from eating meat on Fridays is to return in England and Wales later this year.Read more...
By Philippine Catholic News on May 14, 2011 in:
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SAYING boxing a person was like “boxing the Holy Spirit,” Bishop Dinualdo Gutierrez of Marbel advised boxing legend and Saranggani Rep. Manny Pacquiao to retire from the ring.Read more...
By Philippine Catholic News on May 7, 2011 in:
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CATHOLIC bishops urged people in Mindanao to be more vigilant as they believe that retaliatory attacks by sympathizers of slain terror leader Osama Bin Laden is highly possible in the region.Read more...