The cause for the canonization of Cebuano Archbishop Teofilo “Lolong” Camomot still has a long way to go, but his official biography gained considerable attention after it won the 19th Cardinal Sin Book Award in the Spirituality Category.
Fr. Martin Tobin, C.Ss.R., was found dead in his room at the Redemptorist House in Cebu City on September 6, 2025. He was 81 years old. His funeral Mass was held on September 12 at the Perpetual Help Parish Church in Tacloban City.
“The world right now has reached an all-time low in human sinfulness,” said Fr. James Cervantes, MIC, a Marian priest and promoter of the Divine Mercy devotion.
To mark the 456th founding anniversary of Cebu, the oldest city in the Philippines, the provincial government has organized a grand procession on August 31, 2025, showcasing the patron saints of the island province’s 44 municipalities, six component cities, and three highly urbanized cities.
Eleven days after the Archbishop of Ozamiz ordered the closure of St. John the Baptist Parish Church in Jimenez, Misamis Occidental, the historic church was reopened on August 16, 2025.
The devotion to the Divine Mercy in the Philippines continues to grow, as seen in the increasing number of diocesan and archdiocesan Divine Mercy Shrines throughout the archipelago.
Some three thousand delegates from dioceses across the country are expected to arrive in Davao City beginning August 27, 2025, for the three-day Philippine Apostolic Congress on Mercy (PACOM 2025).
The power of social media as a tool for good, but also for harm, was underscored by a controversy involving a female vlogger who posted a video of herself spitting on the holy water font inside St. John the Baptist Parish Church in Jimenez, Misamis Occidental, on August 3.
The delivery of pepperoni pizza to Pope Leo XIV straight from his hometown, Chicago, Illinois, to Tor Vergato on the outskirts of Rome during last week’s Jubilee of Youth celebration is trending on social media and making headlines across all media platforms worldwide, but what is not widely known is who authored the idea.
