As cardinals gather in the Vatican to elect a new pope -- with a Filipino among the favorites -- the church in Asia's most ...

CEBU, PHILIPPINES — Long before the white smoke rose above St. Peter’s Basilica, Pope Leo XIV—then simply Fr. Robert Francis ...

Philadelphia Filipinos had been rooting for Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle to be the next pope and are disappointed.

A DAY after the midterm elections in the Catholic-majority Philippines, some 200 members of various groups spearheaded by ...

AS cardinals gather in the Vatican to elect a new pope – with a Filipino among the favourites – the church in Asia's most ...

For more than 450 years, the Augustinian Order has played a foundational role in shaping the religious, cultural, and ...

MANILA, Philippines — As cardinals gather in the Vatican to elect a new pope — with a Filipino among the favorites — the church in Asia’s most Catholic country is grappling with a decline ...

It took nearly 440 years after the arrival of Christianity in the Philippines before the first Filipino, Rufino Jiao Santos, joined the College of Cardinals in 1960. Another 52 years passed before ...

A pope speaking Filipino, plain Filipino, talking to you like he’s talking to you directly … it will be an inspiration,’ a ...

MANILA – As cardinals gather in the Vatican to elect a new pope – with a Filipino among the favourites – the church in Asia’s most Roman Catholic country is grappling with a decline in ...