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  • Arroyo's Cha-cha Move 'humorous,' Says Bernas

    MANILA, July 2, 2010- Former President Gloria Arroyo only showed her funny side when she filed a bill seeking for Constitutional amendments, a priest said.

    Constitutionalist Fr. Joaquin Bernas said it's "humorous" that Arroyo herself is seeking Charter Change (Cha-cha) just a day after she began her first day as Pampanga's 2nd District Representative.

    While he has nothing against amending the Charter, Bernas said Arroyo's move is "too early" as process for it should not be initiated until next year.

  • Cruz Urges Neri to 'clear his name'

    MANILA, June 23, 2010-Romulo Neri needs to tell the truth about the botched NBN-ZTE deal, and who are the involved government officials-before it's too late, a Catholic prelate said.

    Retired Archbishop Oscar Cruz believes the outgoing Social Security System president is an "honest and competent" person had he not tried to protect the Arroyo government.

    It's just "unfortunate," he said, that Neri, who was then director of the National Economic Development Authority, was identified with the outgoing administration.

  • Don't Single Out Arroyo – Cardinal Rosales

    MANILA, July 2, 2010-Manila Archbishop Gaudencio Cardinal Rosales is in favor of a Malacañang move to investigate the alleged crimes of former President Gloria Arroyo.

    But Rosales is not happy with how things are currently going on in terms of looking into a wide range of controversies surrounding Arroyo's nine years in power.

    He said that if the current administration is serious in putting closure to so many issues of graft of corruption, it should include even the past presidents or administrations.

  • Bishops Prod Next President to Keep Promises

    MANILA, May 14, 2010-The country's next president and other national government leaders have been told to keep their election pledges.

    Jaro Archbishop Angel Lagdameo said these include more transparency in the government, solving poverty and eradicating graft and corruption, ending human rights abuses, among others.

  • Pontiff Explains Why Society Needs Aquinas

    VATICAN, June 16, 2010 (Zenit.org).- The moral theology of St. Thomas Aquinas is timely even today, says Benedict XVI, who pointed to the saint's emphasis on natural law.

    The Pope took up the teachings of Aquinas today, continuing his catechesis on the Christian culture of the Middle Ages after a several-week break to focus on other themes.

    He explained how Thomas managed to show the "independence of philosophy and theology and, at the same time, their reciprocal rationality."

  • Pope Heads to Castel Gandolfo to Write New Encyclical, Book

    VATICAN, July 7, 2010 (CNA/EWTN News).- The Holy Father retired on Wednesday afternoon to his residence at Castel Gandolfo where he will be spending the greater part of the next few months. He asked for prayers as he retires for a time of rest, work, study, and writing.

    Pope Benedict broke with the tradition of his first five summers as Pope, which entailed heading to the mountains in the north of Italy. This year he will stay in the papal villa just minutes from Rome by helicopter.

  • Church Won't Compromise Stand on Contraceptives

    MANILA, March 11, 2010 -"The stand of the Church on contraceptives can't be compromised."

    This was the statement of Msgr. Pedro Quitorio, Media Director of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) to a women group insisting that the Church change its stand on condoms.

    "If contraceptives are immoral, nothing can change that. If the church teaches it's immoral nothing can change that, not even the vote of the whole country can change that. The Church does not compromise its teachings," he said.

  • Vatican: Pope Can't Make it to UST's Quadricentennial

    MANILA, May 13, 2010-The Supreme Pontiff is not attending the 400th
    founding anniversary of the Philippines' only Pontifical and Royal University.

    The Apostolic Nuncio in the Philippines, Archbishop Edward Joseph Adams, has informed the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines that His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI, cannot attend the grand quadricentennial anniversary celebration of the University of Santo Tomas that will culminate next year.

  • Legazpi Bishop Calls for SK Abolition

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  • DA Turns Over P10M Green House to Sorsogon Diocese

    SORSOGON CITY (4 May) -- Former Agriculture Secretary Arthur C. Yap and Sorsogon Bishop Arturo M. Bastes led other government and non-government organization officials in the Blessing and Turn-over Ceremonies held over the week of the P10 million Greenhouse Vegetable Gardening Project within the Diocese compound, this city.