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October 31, 2014: Yolanda survivors in San Jose, Tacloban City cast flowers to the sea in memory of the thousands of people who perished to the typhoon surge brought about by Yolanda almost a year ago. (CBCPNews)

MANILA, Oct. 31, 2014 – Of the so many issues discussed during the recent Extraordinary Synod on the Family in Rome, Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio G. Cardinal Tagle said he believes poverty is the top concern the Philippines needs to address.

Speaking to church, national and foreign newsmen for nearly two hours, Tagle said the Church in the Philippines sees how the prevailing economic crisis, particularly the lack of jobs, affects the family.

QUEZON City, Oct. 29, 2014—A Catholic priest slams “patronage politics”, stressing it is the logical result of pork barrel.

In a recent statement, Fr. Ben Alforque, main convenor of the Church People’s Alliance Against Pork Barrel (CPAAPB), asserts the patronage politics fostered by the pork barrel system “does not bring the best service to the Filipino people, especially the poor”...

MANILA, Oct. 29, 2014— The Catholic Church is taking the Filipinos’ high trust like a booster shot to continue doing its mission to evangelize.

Fr. Marvin Mejia, CBCP secretary general, said the Church being the most trusted institution as evident in the latest Philippine Trust Index should spur the Church to fulfill its pastoral duty...

MANILA, Oct. 27, 2014— Pope Francis has appointed Manila Auxiliary Bishop Bernardino Cortez as the new Bishop of the Prelature of Infanta in Quezon province. The appointment was announced at 12 noon in Rome (7pm, Manila time) on Monday, October 27. Cortez will succeed Archbishop Rolando Tria Tirona as the fourth bishop of Infanta...

QUEZON City, Oct. 28, 2014—A former rector of the University of Santo Tomás (UST) in Manila died on Monday, Oct. 27, from a yet undisclosed cause, the official Facebook page of the university reports...

MANILA, Oct. 27, 2014—Citing Jesus as an example, the Catholic Church said society should finally learn the lesson that the innocent could lose their lives to the death penalty, stressing that its revival is unjustified.

PARAÑAQUE City, Oct. 27, 2014—An ecumenical group held on Sunday, Oct. 26, simultaneous sign-up drives in different Metro Manila churches in an effort to collect as many signatures for the People’s Initiative to Abolish Pork Barrel.