The Creativity of Love
In a video message for all the faithful just before Holy Week, Pope Francis encouraged us to infuse our actions with "the creativity of love," a quality especially crucial during the current health emergency.
The "Covid Backliners"
A husband and wife team coordinate an emergency supply chain of food and medical supplies to support their local hospitals and essential services. It all began with a simple question: what can we do to help?
“It was my ardent wish to lift my family out of poverty"
Punlaan School is a project of some women of the Prelature of Opus Dei in the Philippines, aimed at helping young women from underprivileged families to acquire the virtues and skills needed to be successful in life.
By Dint of Little Steps: Walking the Way of St. James
Southridge School in the Philippines organized a Camino de Santiago pilgrimage to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the school's founding.
Tondo Social Outreach: "Everyone can help"
Young professionals, teachers, students, and families in the Philippines responded generously to Pope Francis' message for the Second World Day of the Poor.
In the Heart of the Home
The goal of the recent Art of Living Conference in Manila was to help people see "work in the home as a service to their family, which can be professionalized and brought to the level of an art.”
Alfred Robert Cruz Vergara, on being a priest
Alfred Robert Cruz Vergara, who worked as an architect in the Philippines for several years, will be ordained on May 5, 2018.
Visit to the Philippines: Best Images
With Pope Francis' homily before over 6 million people in Manila's Rizal Park, on Santo Niño Sunday. "We are all God's children. That is what the Santo Niño tells us. He reminds us of our deepest identity."
"Protect family's beauty and truth in God’s plan"
On January 16, in a Meeting with Families in Manila, Pope Francis warned against a "new ideological colonization" seeking to destroy the family and praised Paul VI for strongly defending openness to life.
Dennis: "Your prayers sustain us priests"
Dennis, from the Philippines, was ordained on May 10, 2014. After working for some years as an engineer, God called him to the priesthood.