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Filipino seafarers are significantly contributing to the country’s economy by sending home an average of $5 billion every year

The Irish nun acknowledged the shame and frustration felt by priests who are dejected by challenges confronting them and their ministry.

Archbishop Socrates Villegas of Lingayen-Dagupan believes De Lima was jailed for standing firm against wrongdoing.

David said a synodal council would be an exercise of “co-responsibility in mission,” one of the priorities of the “Synod on Synodality”

Growth in the three regions pushed the global Catholic population up to 1.376 billion, an increase of 16.24 million, as of 2021

“Fill (your ballots with people) with integrity, those who can really help in our barangays and our nation,” he said.

In the Catholic Church, the diaconate is the first of three ranks in ordained ministry, followed by priests and bishops

The meetings that began on Oct. 4 are “confidential” but “not secretive” because the people of God deserve to know, he said.

OFWs, which account for a tenth of the Philippine population, have kept the country’s economy afloat in times of crisis

He recalled the synod’s objective of establishing a more “synodal Church,” which radiates “communion, participation, and mission”