Robbin Dagle

Dec 18, 2023 | rappler.com | Robbin Dagle

MANILA, Philippines – Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas released guidelines related to the recently-published Vatican document allowing priests to bless couples in “irregular situations and same-sex couples.” Villegas, president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) from 2013-2017, is the first Filipino bishop to publicly release guidance on the landmark ruling Fiducia supplicans, published on Tuesday, December 18, by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of Faith...

Dec 17, 2023 | rappler.com | Robbin Dagle

MANILA, Philippines – Filipino hymns rang out at Saint Peter’s Basilica, center of the Catholic Church built on the tomb of their first pope Peter, as Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle led the annual Simbang Gabi for Filipinos in Rome. Tagle, one of the most powerful Filipino bishops in the Catholic Church’s 2,000-year history – rivaled in prominence only by the late Cardinal Jaime Sin – celebrated this liturgy in the Filipino language.

Dec 13, 2023 | rappler.com | Robbin Dagle

MANILA, Philippines – Father Daniel Franklin “Danny” Pilario, a Cebuano theologian known for his fight against drug war killings, is the seventh president of the 91-year-old Adamson University. Pilario is a 62-year-old Catholic priest belonging to the Congregation of Mission (CM), also known as the Vincentians, that operates Adamson. He succeeds Father Marcelo Manimtim, who had led the Adamson since December 2015.

Dec 3, 2023 | rappler.com | Robbin Dagle

ILIGAN CITY, Philippines – Filipino imams condemned the bombing of a gymnasium at Mindanao State University (MSU) Marawi during a Catholic Mass on Sunday, December 3, describing the incident as contrary to “all human and Islamic norms.”“In Islam, the only wars that are permitted are between armies, and they should engage on battlefields and engage nobly.

Nov 28, 2023 | rappler.com | Robbin Dagle

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines’ biggest group of Christian churches urged their members to reject Israel’s “illegal occupation” of Palestine as they called for “peace based on justice.”“Churches must not condone Zionist rhetoric among Christians who legitimize as a right of ‘the chosen people’ the illegal occupation of Palestinian properties and other violations of human life and dignity.