Dr. Ryan Capitulo Response to FDA Resolution on Implanon
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Doctor: FDA ignoring medical evidence vs. 51 contraceptives
Dr. Ryan Capitulo gives a talk to pregnant mothers, March 10, 2017. MANILA – A obstetrician-gynecologist believes the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s recent declaration of 51 contraceptives as non-abortifacient is ignoring crucial medical evidence to the contrary. “By certifying the 51 contraceptives. FDA is saying that the 51 contraceptives can never prevent the implantation of the fertilized egg or embryo. This is not true! FDA ignored medical and scientific evidence,” said Dr. Ryan Capitulo who is board certified in obstretics and gynecology as well as in pediatric and adolescent gynecology. It can be recalled that the Supreme Court put…
Church urges repentance over rampant killings
MANILA— The head of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines today called for repentance amid the rising death toll of criminals and drug suspects including minors. Archbishop Socrates Villegas of Lingayen-Dagupan, CBCP President, said time is calling everybody, including political and church leaders, to repent “so healing can begin”. “We need to repent as a nation,” Villegas said in his homily during the “Lord Heal Our Land Sunday” Mass at the Shrine of Mary, Queen of Peace, also known as the Edsa Shrine in Quezon City on November 5. “Repent now. Time is not ours. Start the healing by…
Same sex-attracted man: ‘The unfailing love of God has helped me overcome’
PASAY City – In a candid testimonial, a man who admits to being attracted to the same sex shared about his journey and how God’s unconditional love, manifested through people in his life, helped him in his struggle. “In my struggle with homosexuality all my life, only the unfailing love of God has helped me overcome,” said Dr. Ryan Capitulo of the Light of Jesus community at the “A Love to Last: Families are forever” concert/conference on Oct. 29 at the SMX Convention Center. As a sexually active homosexual, the obstetrician-gynecologist believed homosexuals had as much right as straight people…
Our Lady of Fatima will be icon at prayer for healing
Thousands of devotees join the grand Marian procession along the streets of Cebu City to honor the 100th anniversary of Our Lady of Fatima’s apparitions in Portugal, October 13, 2017. SAMMY NAVAJA The Catholic Church will be using an image of Our Lady of Fatima in a procession against extrajudicial killings along the historic Edsa highway on November 5. It’s the same image that devotees brought to Edsa in the peaceful “people power” revolt in 1986, facing tanks and soldiers of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos. The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) said it will be a prayerful gathering…
Heal Our Nation Sunday
25 October 2017 Dear Brothers and sisters in Christ: Prolife Philippines wishes to invite you and your group on behalf of Archbishop Socrates B. Villegas, CBCP President, to participate in the celebration of the Holy Mass on the “Lord Hear our Land Sunday”, November 5 at 3pm at the EDSA Shrine. The Mass shall be followed by a short candlelight procession to the People Power Monument at the corner of EDSA and White Plains. We have been asked by the good Archbishop to help out in the invitation and mobilization of people following his own statement published in several…
Overcoming our greatest Enemy
There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world. (St. Teresa of Avila) Why is pride an enemy, even our greatest enemy? Pride, “inordinate self-love, is the cause of every sin.” (St. Thomas) If sin is our enemy, the only real evil, and pride its cause, then pride is the greatest enemy within us we have to overcome. Pride was the sin of Adam and Lucifer. It is “the chief cause of suffering in every nation, in every family since the world began.” (C.S….
Church urges faithful to join ‘heal the nation’ Edsa procession
Seminarians and different religious groups call for an end to drug-related killings during a candlelight vigil at the Christ the King Church in Quezon City, Oct. 6, 2017. ANGIE DE SILVA MANILA— A “heal the nation” campaign will see people take to the historic street of Edsa next month to pray for peace amid the spate of killings in the country. The “Lord Heal Our Land Sunday” on November 5 will start another month-long period of praying for victims of extrajudicial killings as a result of the government’s bloody anti-drug war. To launch the activity, Catholic bishops are inviting Catholics…
Speaker warns about valuing wifi more than purity
Prolife Philippines Board Member Peter Pardo gives a talk on teen sexuality and pornography to Mater Carmeli School-Novaliches (MCS) students, Sept. 28, 2017. NOVALICHES – During a symposium-seminar on teen sexuality and pornography on Sept. 28, a resource speaker emphasizes how today’s culture places a higher premium on digital connectivity than on sexual chastity. “We live in an era where losing one’s mobile phone or having a poor internet connection now seem to be more alarming than losing one’s purity,” said Prolife Philippines board member Peter Pardo. Speaking to 400 students at the MCS Auditorium, he discussed the shocking reality…
Priest on death penalty revival: ‘What message are we sending the youth?’
Jesuit Fr. Silvino Borres, Jr. (center), president of the Coalition Against the Death Penalty, presides over a Mass to mark the World Day Against the Death Penalty at the CBCP Chapel in Manila, Oct. 10, 2017. CBCPNews MANILA— The revival of the death penalty would risk sending the wrong message to society, especially the young people, a Catholic priest said. Jesuit Fr. Silvino Borres, Jr., president of the Coalition Against the Death Penalty (CADP), said that to have a civil society, the country must respect life, not demand death. “What kind of message are we telling our young people?” said…
