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‘God must really love the Filipinos’

October 26, 2012 benign0 16 Comments

Nowadays, it seems like the Roman Catholic Church is getting a long-overdue media boost, what with the recent canonisation of new Filipino saint Pedro Calungsod and the elevation to Cardinal of Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio Tagle by Pope Benedict XVI. Filipinos in their renownedly short attention spans have lapped it all up. Nothing like good…

Glitz and Glamour, Media, Religion

Pedro Calungsod – yet another Filipino saint Filipinos can look to for miracles

December 26, 2011 benign0 19 Comments

I read recently that we have another Filipino saint queued for canonisation by the Roman Catholic officialdom in the Vatican. Blessed Pedro Calungsod is a 17th Century Visayan martyr whose bid to be the second Filipino saint is “now a certainty” by virtue of a papal decree made last week according to an Inquirer.net report….

Culture, Government, Religion, Society

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