Tag: All Souls' Day
Families of Desaparecidos renew call for justice on All Souls’ Day...
Families of the disappeared gathered at Sto. Domingo Church on All Souls’ Day, renewing their call for truth and justice
Pope on All Souls’ Day: God has opened for us the...
Pope Leo XIV presides over the Mass for the Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed at Rome’s Monumental Verano Cemetery
Cardinal David finds holiness in Filipino way of remembering dead loved...
Cardinal Pablo Virgilio David says Filipinos honor the dead not with sorrow but with love that endures beyond death.
Philippine groups renew call to surface Desaparecidos on All Souls’ Day
The groups said authorities must open military camps and secret detention centers for families searching for the disappeared
Here is what Pope Francis is doing for the week of...
Since All Saints’ Day falls on a Wednesday this year, Francis will not hold his usual weekly general audience.
No bodies, no graves, only lighted candles
’On the feast of All Souls’ Day, though I light a candle in our veranda and offer a prayer for him, I also prepare my son’s favorite dish’
Pope Francis: ‘Do you desire heaven above everything else?’
"Let’s face it, we have gotten pretty good at compromising with the Gospel,” the pope said in St. Peter’s Basilica on Nov. 2
Rituals to memorialize the dead
Despite cultural differences, we share a common desire to memorialize the dead
Photos: Filipinos prepare tombs of loved ones ahead of All Souls’...
The annual tradition that combines Catholic religious rites with the country’s penchant for festivity is popularly called ‘Undas’
Photos: Philippines’ candlemakers prepare for All Saints’ Day, All Souls’ Day...
The demand for candles has picked up as authorities relaxed health restrictions and allowed more people to visit their departed
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