VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Catholics are still forbidden from joining Masonic organisations and, with an increasing number of Catholics joining…
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Philippines partnering with Catholic foundation to plant vegetables for poor
MANILA, Philippines (CNS) – A Catholic foundation is partnering with the Philippine Agriculture Department to produce vegetables that will feed…
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Filipinos can get ashes on foreheads for first time in two years
MANILA, Philippines (CNS) – Priests in the Philippines will be allowed to mark the foreheads of Catholics on Ash Wednesday, ending a two-year ban…
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On Ash Wednesday, Philippines archdiocese to let families distribute ashes
MANILA, Philippines (CNS) – An archdiocese in the Philippines will allow churchgoers to distribute ashes among family members at home…
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Fr Francis Vernon Douglas last seen 75 years ago
by PATRICIA BROOKS Seventy five years ago this July a New Zealand-born priest disappeared in the Philippines. His parishioners did not know…
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