[Rewind #AwaNgDiyosPH] The ‘new evangelization’ is everyone’s business

 

 

For Easter, The Filipino Connection releases articles from its special edition on the apostolic visit of Pope Francis last January 15-19, 2015.

 

MANILA—Inside a Catholic university’s sprawling 5,000-seat basketball arena is a circular stage that’s smack in the middle of the basketball court, with spotlights directed there whizzing a heavenly feeling. Those spotlights simply exhilarate people, but so do the statuesque reminders of holiness seen on that same stage: the crucified Christ, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and the Sto. Niño (the Holy Child Jesus).

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[Rewind #AwaNgDiyosPH] Family ‘issues’ still tricky territory for Catholic Church

 

 

For Easter, The Filipino Connection releases articles from its special edition on the apostolic visit of Pope Francis last January 15-19, 2015.

 

 

PASAY CITY—A Filipino family congress here that coincided with the recent apostolic visit of Pope Francis provided a local version of how the Catholic world’s top bishops discussed and debated ticklish issues as an extraordinary synod.

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[Rewind #AwaNgDiyosPH] Venerable Aloysius Schwartz: The ‘Filipino’ who intercedes for the poor

 

 

For Easter, The Filipino Connection releases articles from its special edition on the apostolic visit of Pope Francis last January 15-19, 2015.

 

MANILA—He was not Filipino by birth, but by heart.

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[Rewind #AwaNgDiyosPH] Spanish priest whom Pope Francis declared blessed still ‘Filipino’

 

For Easter, The Filipino Connection releases articles from its special edition on the apostolic visit of Pope Francis last January 15-19, 2015.

 

QUEZON CITY—From martyrdom to stardom: Those were the paths to sainthood for the first Filipino saints, San Lorenzo Ruiz and San Pedro Calungsod.

A third “Filipino” is also taking the same path.

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[Rewind #AwaNgDiyosPH] Mercy for a nun’s sainthood sought from Francis, Vatican

 

 

For Easter, The Filipino Connection releases articles from its special edition on the apostolic visit of Pope Francis last January 15-19, 2015.

 

 

QUEZON CITY—A nearly-400-year-old congregation of Dominican nuns is hoping that mercy from the global Catholic Church hierarchy leads to the group’s biggest triumph.

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[Rewind #AwaNgDiyosPH] Clergy sexual abuse: Church’s ‘scourge’ resurrects its PHL tie-in

 

 

For Easter, The Filipino Connection releases articles from its special edition on the apostolic visit of Pope Francis last January 15-19, 2015.

 

MANILA—Just as Pope Francis had stepped out of the Sri Lankan Airlines plane to set afoot in Asia’s Catholic stronghold January 15, a US-based group’s website still has no updated page that’s supposed to bare explosive information that the group said —and promised— it will upload “in time” for the Pontiff’s visit to the Philippines.

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[Exclusive] [#AwaNgDiyosPH] Another blessing from Pope Francis: A new venerable for PH Church

 

 

MANILA (The Filipino Connection)–Who says Pope Francis’ blessings to the Philippines are over?

Fresh from a five-day apostolic visit to the country, Pope Francis gave another good news to the Philippine Catholic Church when he declared American missionary Msgr. Aloysius Schwartz venerable today.

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[#AwaNgDiyosPH] Filipinos’ own ‘synod’ re-enacts Vatican’s October ’14 gab

 

 

PASAY CITY (The Filipino Connection and Philstar.com)—A Filipino family congress here that coincided with the recent apostolic visit of Pope Francis provided a local version of what happened when the Catholic world’s top bishops discussed and debated ticklish issues last October.

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[#AwaNgDiyosPH] A family-centric final Papal word to a devout nation

 

 

MANILA–From his first speech to his final homily in a four-day, four-night Philippine visit, His Holiness Pope Francis reiterated that Filipinos should protect families.

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[#AwaNgDiosPH] ‘Joyous’ Sunday Papal message: The Church’s reform

 

 

MANILA (The Filipino Connection and Philstar.com)—It took a 12-year-old out-of-school Filipina to pierce tearfully the heart of a pope, leading the Vicar of Christ to make an entire Sunday one joyous justification of his pursuit of reforms for the global Catholic Church.

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