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  • Anti-Mining Priest Appointed to Church's Social Action Arm

    MANILA, February 18, 2010-A CATHOLIC priest who has marched with peasants and indigenous peoples in street protests is filling an important position in the Church's social action apostolate.

    Early this February, a priest in charge of Calapan's Mangyan Missions has been appointed to the Episcopal Commission on Social Action, Justice and Peace (ECSA,JP) of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) which is often referred to as the National Secretariat for Social Action (NASSA).

  • Cardinal Hits 'narrow-minded' Response to AIDS

    MANILA, Feb. 18, 2010- The head of Manila's Catholic Church said condoms are not the answer to the country's fight against HIV and describing as "narrow-minded" the government's response to it.

    Gaudencio Cardinal Rosales said condoms will never solve the AIDS epidemic and could make the problem even worse.

    Rosales assailed the Department of Health (DOH), saying they are being instrumental to the deterioration of the morals of the society, especially the youth.

  • CBCP Hopes for Clean Polls Amid Automation Glitches

    MANILA, May 5, 2010-The Catholic hierarchy still clings to the hope that next week's automated elections would be fine amid new automation glitches again and fears of poll failure.

  • Church Cautious About "bleeding" Last Supper image

    YERBA BUENA, Argentina, June 14, 2010--Archdiocesan officials are calling for prudence regarding an image of the Last Supper that some claim shows Christ's forehead seeping blood that runs down his left cheek.

    The Oratory of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Yerba Buena -- where the image is kept -- was so overwhelmed by the faithful last Sunday that Father Jorge Gandur and Father Luis Brandán concelebrated Mass outside.

    But the Archdiocese of Tucuman appealed for prudence and caution, until scientific evaluations shed light on the occurrence.

  • Bishops to Aquino: Abolish Pork Barrel

    MANILA, June 3, 2010- Catholic bishops on Thursday called on the incoming president to abolish one of the "biggest source" of funds for corruption: pork barrel.

  • Bishops: World Cup Cloaks Human Trafficking

    ROME, May 27, 2010-- Bishops of southern African nations are trying to bring global attention to the problem of human trafficking in their region.

    The prelates, collaborating with the group Planet Waves, organized a meeting last week on the phenomenon, which affects an unknown number of people. Four episcopal conferences were represented at the meeting: Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe.

    It's estimated 300 people a week enter South Africa illegally from Mozambique alone.

  • Bikol Braces for the Grand Tercentenary Celebration

    NAGA CITY, Feb. 27, 2010- As the countdown of the Tercentenary of the devotion to Our Lady of Peñafrancia continues, the Caceres Archdiocesan Tercentenary Committee, headed by the Archbishop Leonardo Z. Legaspi, OP, DD, released the roster of activities for the remaining seven months before the grand novena week in September.

  • Moral Theologians Warn Against Semi-cloning

    SINGAPORE, October 22, 2009--Catholic moral theologians have raised concerns after news broke that scientists here have become the first to "semi-clone" an animal by fertilizing an egg with an embryonic stem cell that mimics sperm.

    The breakthrough by scientists at the National University of Singapore's Department of Biological Sciences could help treat infertility, according to an Oct. 17 press release on the university's website.

  • Slay Plot by Radical Muslims Against Pope Prevented

    ROME, Italy, May 15, 2010--Two Moroccan students who attended a university in the central Italian city of Perugia were expelled from the country last month after it was discovered that they were conspiring to kill Pope Benedict. One of them allegedly said he wished to "earn a place in Paradise."

    According to Italian weekly newspaper Panorama, conversations intercepted by Italian authorities led to the arrest and deportation of the two suspects.

  • Legazpi Prepares to Welcome its 6th Bishop

    LEGAZPI City, Dec. 9, 2009-The Province of Albay, famous for its Mayon Volcano, is in the thick of preparations to welcome its sixth bishop, the 55-year old Bishop Joel Z. Baylon, in fitting liturgical reception and canonical installation at the St. Gregory the Great Cathedral at 4:00 P.M. tomorrow.

    The Apostolic Nuncio to the Philippines Archbishop Edward Joseph Adams and the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Manila His Eminence Gaudencio B. Cardinal Rosales will lead about 30 other bishops from across the country.