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Pastoral Statement of the Diocese of Kidapawan on the May 2013 Elections

MY dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Last April 8, 2013, the priests of the Diocese of Kidapawan and I met and agreed to come out with a pastoral statement clarifying what our position is on the so- called “Catholic Vote,” which has since been re-named by the lay organizers as Solidarity Vote Movement (SVM). [...]

A Pastoral Letter on the 2013 Elections

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TO the People of God in the Archdiocese of Tuguegarao: In union with the priests of the Archdiocese of Tuguegarao I address you as your Pastor particularly on matters pertaining to the May 2013 Election. The Church is the Conscience of society and therefore with St. Paul we “proclaim the word with persistence whether it is convenient or [...]

Keep the Fire on the Altar Burning

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A Pastoral Letter on the National Elections 2013 “The fire must always be burning on the altar..” (Leviticus 6,6) Dear People of God, On May 13, 2013, we shall be casting our votes. We will do it because it is our patriotic duty as Filipino citizens. We will do it [...]

Choose God! Vote Good!

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A Pastoral Statement of the Diocese of Pasig It is election time once again. In the past and even now, there have been pastoral letters and statements written by your Catholic Bishops either as a conference or as a shepherd of his diocese to guide the catholic populace on how to responsibly choose and vote [...]

Principled Partisan Politics: Three Ways of Involvement

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Pastoral Letter addressed To the People of God in the Archdiocese of Cagayan de Oro. ELECTIONS are a time for choice and decision-making. Voters are expected to follow their conscience in choosing public officials that will serve the common good, and help in the development of their community. On election day itself, every voter [...]

The Church and our Elections

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Pastoral Letter for the Archdiocese of Lingayen Dagupan. MY dear people of God: As responsible citizens of heaven and citizens of our nation, we must face the forthcoming elections always from the viewpoint of faith and with the mind of the Church enlightened by the values of the Gospel. Our [...]

Caring for the earth, saving our Mindanao environment

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A Pastoral Statement of KIDMADICO Bishops on Earth Day (Dioceses of Kidapawan, Marbel, Digos and Archdiocese of Cotabato) Introduction At the beginning of time God created “the heavens and the earth….. And God saw everything that he had made, and, indeed it was very good” (Gen. 1:27,31). On 22 April 2013, Earth Day, we ask [...]

The Risen Lord, source of our future resurrection

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Our Lord Jesus Christ is truly risen from the dead! Alleluia! Let us rejoice and be glad! My dear brothers and sisters, we should rejoice and be glad because “the resurrection of Jesus is the crowning truth of our faith in Christ, a faith believed and lived as the central truth by the first Christian [...]

The Risen Lord is Our Hope

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Beloved brothers and sisters, In the name of the Christian faithful in the Archdiocese of Manila, I greet you a Blessed Easter! We rejoice with the whole of humanity and creation in the Risen Lord who is our hope. In an early discourse on Easter, St. Peter declared, “They put him (Jesus) to death by [...]

Message of Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio G. Cardinal Tagle on the election of His Holiness Pope Francis

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Let us join the whole Church and the world in thanking God for His special gift in the extraordinary person of Pope Francis. I thank you for your fervent prayers for the Cardinal Electors. We never felt alone even for a moment. Your love sustained us. When I approached Pope Francis to assure him of [...]