“How could that which, from nonexistence, has been given existence, be God?... But I also venerate and respect all the rest of matter which has brought me salvation, since it is full of energy and holy graces,” St. John Damascene wrote.
Father Flavie Villanueva, a Filipino missionary priest of the Society of the Divine Word (SVD) and one of the recipients of the 2025 Ramon Magsaysay Award, delivered a lecture on November 6 highlighting how the Arnold Janssen Kalinga Center in Manila,
Aside from being one of the greatest preachers of the 15th century, Saint John was also known as the priest who raised an army against the Ottoman Empire. His life exemplifies what it is like to achieve holiness in serving both Church and State.
With ₱43.5 billion worth of flood control contracts from the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) now under scrutiny due to their substandard or unfinished state, public demand for government transparency and accountability has grown stronger.
The Province of Laguna in the Philippines is home to the only parish in the entire country dedicated to Saint Polycarp, a Greek bishop of Smyrna and an Apostolic Father of the Church.
In recent months, the phrase “ghost projects” has dominated public discourse in the Philippines. Following a series of government exposés, numerous flood control projects have come under scrutiny. Despite billions of pesos in allocated funding, many of these infrastructures were either left unfinished or never built at all.
Representatives of Vietnam and the Holy See held a bilateral meeting in the Vatican to discuss the current situation of the Catholic Church in the Southeast Asian nation.
The provisional agreement between the Chinese government and the Holy See has reached a new milestone as two more bishops appointed by the pope receive civil recognition.
