Priests, flock improvise on Palm Sunday
Priests delivered blessings from the back of trucks and motorized tricycles in the Philippine Sunday, adapting the deeply Catholic nation’s ...
Read moreTag: Priests
Fallibility
No less than the leader of the Roman Catholic Church acknowledged that some priests and bishops had sexually abused nuns, ...
Read more
We need an opposition leader
"Sadly no one is stepping up." President Duterte has urged “tambays”—loiterers—to rob bishops, who are wealthy because they ...
Read more
Church rallies laity vs slays
MORE than 10,000 people, including bishops, priests, sisters and lay people, gathered at the Quirino Grandstand in Manila to protest ...
Read more
Climate of fear
Before the New Year celebrations, President Rodrigo Duterte railed and ranted against some bishops and priests critical of the killings ...
Read more
‘Priests can forgive abortion’
Vatican City - Pope Francis declared Monday that all priests would have the right permanently to forgive abortion, seen as ...
Read more
Manila Standard website (manilastandard.net), launched in August 2002, extends the newspaper’s reach beyond its traditional readers and makes its brand of Philippine news and opinion available to a much wider and geographically diverse readership here and overseas.