Palace: Duterte still open to dialogue with Church leaders

Credit to Author: eestopace| Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2019 07:38:59 +0000

President Rodrigo Duterte said he is still open to a dialogue with members of the clergy, Malacañang said Monday.

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Pope appoints new Daet bishop

Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2019 02:20:11 +0000

Pope appoints new bishop of Daet

MANILA, Philippines — Pope Francis has appointed Fr. Andrew Alarcon as the new bishop of Diocese of Daet in Camarines Norte, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) announced on Wednesday.

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‘Those who call God stupid are anti-Christ’

Credit to Author: hniitsu| Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2019 21:12:50 +0000

Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas, one of the country’s most popular Church figures, made vague references to President Duterte’s rants against the Church in a New Year message he gave his godson, Seth, through an open letter.

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Bishops in show of force at cathedral rite

Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 21:30:44 +0000

Several bishops joined Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle in celebrating Mass at Manila Cathedral on Monday, in an apparent show of force

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‘Groups might take Duterte seriously, harm bishops’

Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 21:37:10 +0000

Former Defense Secretary Norberto Gonzales has warned the public against individuals or groups who might take President Rodrigo Duterte’s verbal assault on Catholic prelates seriously.

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Catholic bishops: Pray for ‘blasphemers’, ‘murderers’ masked as crime fighters  

CATHOLIC prelates are being requested to replace their homilies in Masses today, Sunday, with a reading of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) pastoral letter that asks for prayers for those who have “blasphemed” God’s name and who have   “committed or justified murder as a means for fighting criminality in our country.” […]

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CBCP: Pray for killers, blasphemers

CBCP: Pray for killers, blasphemers

Catholic bishops on Monday called for a day of prayer and three days of fasting for people who had blasphemed God and murdered others ahead of a dialogue with President Rodrigo Duterte, who called God “stupid.”

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Bishops call for 3-day fasting after Duterte says God ‘stupid’

Romulo Valles

The Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) called on Monday for fasting and prayers after President Rodrigo Duterte made a remark about a “stupid God” and questioned God’s existence in profane remarks that set the leader on a collision course with Asia’s largest Catholic Church.

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