By Lynn Alejandrino-Topel Nobody with a crystal ball could have foreseen a breakdancer and a 3rd degree black belt holder in taekwondo would be a priest someday. Not just any priest, but a “Cooking Priest” at that! Father Leo Patalinghug is all of the above and more! After shedding his martial arts robe, he dons […]
By Cristina DC Pastor Four years ago, more than a thousand Sto. Niño images resided in a cottage-style home in a fine neighborhood in Linden, N.J., next door to a Catholic Church. It was known to legions of devotees as the Casa Sto. Niño or the Divine Child Museum. The 1,200 statues belong to antiques aficionado Marcos […]
By Cristina DC Pastor In a rare moment, Georgio Dano, RN of Northwell Health Staten Island University, did something he has never done in his 10 years as a health care professional: He performed the Last Rites over a dying patient. The patient was an elderly man who came to the hospital for shortness of […]
By Lynn Alejandrino-Topel “The winner of the Great American Baking Show Holiday Edition is…Brother Andrew!” The announcement was made by Emma “Baby Spice” Bunton and was met with squeals and cheers. A brown-frocked seminarian was handed his cake stand trophy made of glass. Brother Andrew Corriente’s parents and sister came around to give him hugs […]
SANTA ANA, Calif. – A federal grand jury has charged three top administrators of a Philippines-based church with overseeing a labor trafficking scheme that forced church members to solicit donations for a bogus charity after the defendants illegally obtained visas and other immigration documents that allowed the workers to enter and remain in the United […]
By Johnson Lazaro, Esq. Manila memories of the martyr In my pre-American stage, as a youngster of about 7 or 8 years of age, I vividly recall the procession of the Black Nazarene through the streets of Manila. My dad took part in a number of the annual processions. I remember thousands of Filipinos lining […]
By Loida Nicolas Lewis Archbishop Bernardito Cleopas Auza, the first Filipino to be appointed as the Vatican’s Permanent Observer to the United Nations, was recently named Apostolic Nuncio to Spain and Andorra. Archbishop Auza is proud that during his five-and-a-half years as the Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the UN, many important global […]
By Cristina DC Pastor A dismissed Filipino priest and accusations of lack of transparency against the parish priest. How are they connected to the months-long protest rallies now going on at St. Sebastian Church in Woodside, Queens? A group calling itself the Catholic Movement for Transparency has been holding weekly protest rallies outside the church […]
“The Iglesia Ni Cristo (INC) has set its sights on the global campaign against poverty. It’s a cause we’ve committed to champion and sustain as a church.” This was the remark of Executive Minister Eduardo V. Manalo after the INC conducted its most recent outreach activities in various Canadian cities, describing them as “much bigger […]