His Excellency Ryan P. Jimenez, DD, posed for a group photo with the Simbang Gabi Group after the Mass in honor of San Lorenzo Ruiz, the First Filipino Saint last Sunday.

Mass in Honor of San Lorenzo Ruiz

Posted by - September 30, 2017
Bishop Ryan P. Jimenez DD and Fr. Neil Bullos, OAR posed for a group photo with Gloria Dei Choir after the Mass in Honor of San Lorenzo Ruiz last Sunday.
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In preparation for the new CCD school year, Fr. James Balajadia of St. Jude Parish did the Blessing and Commissioning of his parish CCD catechists/teachers during the Sunday Mass last weekend.

Diocese of Chalan Kanoa Opens New CCD School Year

Posted by - September 30, 2017

The new school year for CCD kicks-off this weekend in all the parishes around the diocese. Sr. Nina Caccam, SJBP, who is the director of the Office of Religious Education is expecting an increase of enrollment once again following the trend and statistics in the past few years. Last year’s CCD enrollment was 976 students

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Disciple or Church-goer?

Posted by - September 30, 2017

Perhaps you have been asked by a friend or loved one, “Why is it important for me to go to church? If God is everywhere, then what is so special about the church? Why do some go to church but their actions seem so far from being Christian? I admit these are difficult questions and

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Religious Liberty (Part 1)

Posted by - September 30, 2017

One of the least understood and most complex debates that has been raging the past few years, particularly in the United States, is the “religious liberty” controversy. It is at the heart of Church and government relationships. In this and a few subsequent issues of Along the Way I will try to explain what the debate is

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XXVI DAMENGGU GI UTDINÅRIU NA TIEMPU

Posted by - September 30, 2017

FINE’NA NA TINAITAI                                                                              Ez 18, 25-28 Un tinaitai ginin i Lepblun i Prufeta as Ezekiel   Taiguini ilek-ña i Saina: Ilik-miyu na, “Ti tunas i bidan i Saina!” Ekkunguk Yu’ på’gu, hamyu ni taotåo Israhet: Kåo i bidå-hu ti tunas, osino, i bidan-miyu ti tunas? Yanggin i tinas na tåotåo ha bira gui’ ginin

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Pope Francis gives the homily during morning Mass Sept. 19 in the chapel of the Domus Sanctae Marthae at the Vatican. (CNS photo/L'Osservatore Romano)

Don’t look away; be moved by tragedy and help, pope says

Posted by - September 24, 2017

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — People need to have true compassion so they feel others’ pain and are moved to help, Pope Francis said. “Compassion is an emotion that engages, it is a feeling from the heart, from the gut,” affecting one’s entire being, the pope said Sept. 19 during morning Mass in the Domus Sanctae

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Rescue personnel remove rubble Sept. 20 at a collapsed building while searching for survivors after an earthquake hit Mexico City. The magnitude 7.1 earthquake hit Sept. 19 to the southeast of the city, killing hundreds. (CNS photo/Claudia Daut, Reuters)

Pope prays for victims of Mexico quake

Posted by - September 24, 2017

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — As search and rescue operations continued in central Mexico, where more than 200 people died after a strong earthquake Sept. 19, Pope Francis offered his prayers for the victims. “May our mother, the Virgin of Guadalupe, with great tenderness be near the beloved Mexican nation,” the pope said in Spanish Sept.

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Msgr. Mark Merdian of Peoria, Ill., and Father Ryan Ford of Marquette, Mich., concelebrate Mass in 2016 at Sacred Heart Chapel in Detroit. Sacred Heart Major Seminary offers working priests a distance-learning program to earn a degree in the new evangelization. (CNS photo/courtesy Sacred Heart Major Seminary)

For working priests, distance-learning evangelization degree is godsend

Posted by - September 24, 2017

DETROIT (CNS) — Father Joseph Kim serves in a diocese divided. On one side of the valley, there are the billionaires: the Facebooks, the Googles, the Apples. On the other side, there are the poor. In the middle, there are priests such as him, striving to bring one Gospel to all of them. “Our diocese

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Pope expands scope of John Paul II institute on marriage, family

Posted by - September 24, 2017

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — To better prepare priests and pastoral workers to help meet the challenges families face today, Pope Francis is strengthening the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family and changing its name to the Pontifical John Paul II Theological Institute for the Sciences of Marriage and Family. The

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