When ordinary Filipino Catholics feel that their leaders are in solidarity with them and reach out to those who are on the ...

Pope Leo XIV's church is growing steadily, but its believers are no longer concentrated on the continent where it was born.

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Court decision to nullify 25-year moratorium in Occidental Mindoro province termed as 'detrimental to the environment' ...

People in the Philippines, which has Asia's largest Catholic population, are closely following the conclave to elect a new pope.

Pope Leo XIV’s quick ascent to the papacy places him among the fastest-elected pontiffs in the Catholic Church’s history, ...

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An official of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) on Thursday said cardinal electors are still on the ...

Catholic cardinals will sequester themselves Wednesday behind the Vatican’s medieval walls for the start of a conclave to ...