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).