Category: Local

– Fr Leonard Dollentas As the world is facing an incredibly contagious and dangerous pandemic with global cases rising above 650,000 and more than 30,000 dead (March 27), Italy’s death toll for COVID-19 surged to 10,000. Reports confirmed that among…

– Marco Carvalho An earthquake that rocked the manner schools and universities teach and changed the way private institutions of social solidarity look after their users. The coronavirus outbreak forced institutions from all quarters of society to reinvent themselves and…

– Joni Cheng The effect of the apostasy in the Catholic Church in the 16th century followed through in the 17th and 18th century.  However, by roughly around 1650 to 1800, the modern era began, where people no longer lived…

CN/11/011/2020 Special Arrangements for Parish Liturgies from 22nd March through to Holy Week and Easter For the spiritual benefit of the faithful, and in cooperation with the community’s ongoing infection prevention measures, the Diocese is implementing the following, until further…

– Fr Leonard Dollentas The latest figure of persons in the Philippines who have tested positive for COVID-19 has soared to 552 (as of 25 March). The country’s Department of Health or DOH has also reported that 33 patients with…

– Jasmin Yiu For the spiritual benefit of the faithful, and in cooperation with the community’s ongoing infection prevention measures, the Catholic Diocese of Macau announced measures and arrangements for receiving the Holy Communion after live Sunday Mass broadcast (see…

– Marco Carvalho The eight years that Father Peter Stilwell devoted to the leadership of the University of Saint Joseph have steered the higher education institution to a path of stability, but there are still doors to be opened, Stephen…

CN/11/011/2020 Chancery Notice Special Arrangements for Parish Liturgies from 22nd March through to Holy Week and Easter For the spiritual benefit of the faithful, and in cooperation with the community’s ongoing infection prevention measures, the Diocese is implementing the following,…

– Fr Leonard Dollentas It all started with a different way of imposing the ashes last Ash Wednesday: the sprinkling of the ashes on one’s head instead of the customary marking of the faithful’s forehead with them. The Catholic Bishops’…