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Philippines starts vaccinating children against COVID-19
The Philippines on Monday, February 7, started vaccinating children five to 11 years old against COVID-19 in the national capital. The rollout of t…
Re-reading liturgy in Vatican II: Hard questions from the rough grounds
(From the time I published this last year, one important document from the Vatican came out: “ Traditiones Custodes .“ Pope Francis reinforces what …
Rayan, the boy stuck in a well in Morocco, shows beauty of ‘saints next door’
Pope Francis on Sunday shared two recent examples of everyday holiness, times when people gathered together to help a suffering child and a dying yo…
International observers to monitor possible abuses in Philippine elections
An international human rights organization announced that it will be sending a team of observers ahead of this year’s Philippine elections to monito…
Pope to mayors: Money is not enough to solve our problems
Money is not enough to solve the problems of society, Pope Francis said during a February 5 audience in Rome with a delegation of Italian mayors. “…
Tibetan monks sent to labor camps for spreading news of Buddhist statue’s destruction
Eleven Tibetans beaten and arrested by Chinese authorities in January for spreading news of the destruction of a 99-foot-tall Buddha statue and doze…
New COVID infections in Hong Kong reach record high
Hong Kong’s “zero-COVID” policy was on the ropes Saturday as authorities announced a record number of new infections, sending officials scrambling t…
Lawyer decries Church, gov’t, media silence over killing of priest in Vietnam
A Vietnamese lawyer decried what he described as the silence of the government, Church leaders, and the media in his country on the killing of a Dom…
Cardinal Tagle to ordain new papal nuncio to Rwanda in Manila on Feb 11
Filipino Monsignor Arnaldo Catalan, the new apostolic nuncio to Rwanda, will be ordained as an archbishop in Manila, his home archdiocese. Cardinal…
Child rights group raises alarm over high COVID-19 related deaths among minors
Child rights group Salinlahi Alliance for Children’s Concerns expressed “extreme alarm” over a report that at least 202 children died in the recent …
Peace, rights groups welcome presidential bets’ stand on peace talks
Peace and human rights advocates welcomed the expressed willingness of some presidential candidates to reopen peace negotiations with communist rebe…
Jesus in the boat
I wonder if you have ever seen a pulpit inside an old church that is shaped like a boat? I have seen one in Austria in a church called Traukirchen. …
Second Vatican Council 55 years after: How to interpret the council
On January 30, 2021, Pope Francis said that there should be no concession to those who deny the teachings of Vatican II. “You can be with the churc…
Penitential living and service
Reflection for the 5th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Cycle C) Today’s readings are a depiction of what we may characterize as a less acceptable though a…
Winter Olympics close to Pope Francis’ heart, says Vatican sports official
As the 2022 Winter Olympics opened in Beijing on Friday, a Vatican official who oversees sports matters has said the Olympic and Paralympic Games ar…
Sri Lankan cardinal boycotts Independence Day celebration to protest lack of justice
Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith of Colombo is not attending Sri Lanka’s official Independence Day celebration on Friday, February 4, to protest the alleged…
