CBCP Plenary Assembly

A newly appointed Catholic bishop has urged the Church to defend unborn life not through condemnation or argument, but through compassion, accompaniment, and the healing of broken human relationships, warning of a growing “crisis of intimacy” in modern society.

Indigenous communities are not merely recipients of charity but moral teachers whose values expose deep social inequalities, Bishop Dave Dean Capucao said during the opening Mass of the 131st Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) plenary assembly at the Immaculate Conception Cathedral in Cubao, Metro Manila.