We are inviting everyone to join us as the Prolife Philippines Foundation together with the Daughters of Mary Immaculate International again host the Lakbayan Para sa Buhay, Pamilya at Birheng Maria in celebration of the Feast of the Immaculate Conception on December 8, 2021, a declared national holiday. With this year’s theme “Birheng Maria: Tulay ng Pagpapala at Gabay ng Diyos sa Panahon ng Pandemya”, the caravan will visit several churches in different Dioceses starting with a celebration of the Eucharist at the Immaculate Conception Cathedral in Intramuros. This will be followed by a motorcade passing through the National Shrine…

The venerated image of Mater Dolorosa de Capas has received a canonical coronation over the weekend. Archbishop Charles Brown, apostolic nuncio to the Philippines, crowned the image during Mass at the San Sebastian Cathedral in Tarlac City on June 5. In his homily, the nuncio asked the faithful to turn to Mary to pray for “our difficulties, the sorrows, the sadness of our human lives”. “Let us allow her to present them to Jesus, the Heavenly Father,” Brown said. “Let us remember that in our Catholic faith, sorrow will be turned into joy. That joy will have the last word.”…

VATICAN— Pope Francis declared a blind 14th-century Italian lay Dominican a saint Saturday using a process known as “equipollent” canonization. The Holy See press office said April 24 that the pope had authorized the extension of the liturgical cult of Blessed Margaret of Castello to the universal Church during a Saturday morning meeting with Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, prefect of the Vatican Congregation for the Causes of Saints. She will now be inscribed among the saints via the procedure also called “equivalent” canonization, where the requirement for a miracle attributed to the candidate’s intercession is waived. Margaret of Castello was born blind and…