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Online gambling ‘wrecking lives’ of poor Filipinos, says Cardinal David

Jun 19
Joseph San Mateo

Amadeus Fernando Pagente, better known as Pura Luka Vega, is a popular drag artist in the Philippines. (Credit: Credit: puralukavega on Instagram.)

Manila court acquits Filipino drag artist over ‘Our Father’ performance

Jun 13
Joseph San Mateo

Filipino senators take oath as jurors in the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte at the Philippine Senate in Pasey city, Philippines on June 10, 2025. (Credit: Voltaire Fernandez Domingo/Senate Social Media Unit via AP.)

Filipino bishops hit Senate for delaying VP Duterte’s impeachment trial

Jun 12
Joseph San Mateo

Bishop Michael Pham of San Diego. (Credit: Diocese of San Diego.)

Church should embrace cultures, says 1st Vietnam-born head of US diocese

May 26
Joseph San Mateo

Filipino Cardinal Pablo Virgilio David (3rd from left) meets with Elder Patrick Kearon (4th) of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at the Diocese of Kalookan on May 21, 2025. (Credit: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - Philippines/Facebook.)

Filipino Cardinal David meets senior Latter-day Saints leader after Rome trip

May 23
Joseph San Mateo

Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas attends the launch of a voter empowerment campaign led by the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting of the Archdiocese of Lingayen-Dagupan at PHINMA University of Pangasinan, March 28, 2025. (Credit: Archdiocese of Lingayen-Dagupan.)

Filipino bishops hit vote buying, urge vigilance after 2025 elections

May 15
Joseph San Mateo

Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle speaks at a post-conclave press conference along with two other Filipino cardinal electors at the Pontificio Collegio Filippino in Rome, May 9, 2025. (Credit: Roy Lagarde/CBCP News.)

Cardinal Tagle says ‘no turning back’ from Francis’s pro-poor programs under Leo XIV

May 12
Joseph San Mateo

Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle in the Vatican press office on Sept. 27, 2017. (Credit: Andrew Medechini/AP.)

Filipino bishops defend Cardinal Tagle’s record in fighting sexual abuse

May 5
Joseph San Mateo

A Catholic priest performs a ritual as part of lenten practice to mark Holy Wednesday in Paete, Laguna province, Philippines, April 16, 2025. (Credit: Aaron Favila/AP.)

‘There are no candidates in a conclave,’ says Filipino Cardinal David

Apr 24
Joseph San Mateo

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Catholic Church warns assisted suicide Bill in Britain would damage hospice care

Jun 19
Charles Collins

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Online gambling ‘wrecking lives’ of poor Filipinos, says Cardinal David

Jun 19
Joseph San Mateo

UN troops deploy outside Goma, in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Jan. 24, 2025. (Credit: Moses Sawasawa/AP.)

Congo bishops denounce claim by political leader Church involved in conspiracy

Jun 19
Ngala Killian Chimtom

California Highway Patrol officers arrest two men after a dispersal order during a protest Saturday, June 14, 2025, in Los Angeles. (Credit: Ethan Swope/AP.)

Archbishop of Los Angeles says Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigrants ‘is punishment’

Jun 18
Charles Collins

Reviving tradition, Pope Leo to spend July break at Castel Gandolfo

Jun 17
John L. Allen Jr.

California Highway Patrol officers arrest two men after a dispersal order during a protest Saturday, June 14, 2025, in Los Angeles. (Credit: Ethan Swope/AP.)

Archbishop of Los Angeles says Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigrants ‘is punishment’

Jun 18
Charles Collins

Pope Leo XIV reflects on the paralytic man being healed in the Gospel of St. John in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican on June 18, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope Leo calls for hope for those ‘locked in a dead end’

Jun 18
Charles Collins

Israeli Ambassador to the Holy See Yaron Sideman presents his credentials to Pope Francis. (Credit: Israeli Embassy to the Holy See.)

Israeli envoy defends Iran offensive, says pope can make a difference

Jun 17
Elise Ann Allen