Tag: Church response
Filipinos urged to hold dialogue, partnerships for effective COVID-19 response
“To emerge better from the crisis, the principle of subsidiarity must be implemented, respecting everyone’s [role]"
Options on the ground
Clergy and religious help to put into practice Pope Francis’ dream of a listening, dialogical and synodal Church
The Church’s prohibition on the clergy’s participation in partisan politics
All Christians and the whole Church “must be involved in the area of politics when Gospel values are at stake”
Can priests and religious endorse political candidates?
In practice, priests who run for public office need to renounce their ministerial functions or are suspended from exercising them
Diocese of Lucena parish holds prayer rally to show opposition to...
The parish priest said the climate crisis "makes it clear that the use of coal and all other fossil fuels needs to end"
Responding to the cry of the poor
An urgent change in our lifestyle and attitude towards creation is necessary for healing to take place
Catholics, Protestants in Negros unite against proposed reclamation project
Church people in Negros Island have united in a call to prayer against the P23 billion project at the city’s iconic Boulevard on Saturday
Bishop warns against candidates who have no ‘good manners’
He said leaders should have “good manners” because “words can be inspiring and encouraging, not abusive, offensive, nor life-threatening”
Philippine Church leaders remind Filipino voters of ‘sacredness’ of vote
The religious leaders made the statements as candidates for next year’s polls file their certificates of candidacy this week
Whispering hope
There is always that hope Filipinos love to whisper, a hope that next year there will be better leaders, that change will indeed come