The Tri-Council (MSC, FDNSC, MSC Sisters) had a meeting on December 15, 2011 at the house of the MSC sisters in Isidora Hills Subdivision, Diliman, Quezon City. The meeting was one of the regular Tri-Council meetings held quarterly. The Tri-Council meetings provide a venue for more collaboration, dialogue and sharing of experiences/concerns of leadership [...]

Four (4) Vietnamese postulants arrived with Fr. John Mulrooney, MSC (Australian Provincial) yesterday afternoon (January 17, 2012) in Manila. The four (4) Vietnamese postulants will have English lessons before they will start their Novitiate this year.

Four (4) Korean scholastics arrived early yesterday morning (January 17, 2012). They will have one-month exposure and visits to our communities in the Districts especially Manila and Cebu. They will stay in the Philippines until February 23, 2012. The esposure is for them to get to know the mother province and at the same time [...]

The Commission on Initial Formation with the Commission on Vocation Promotion and Recruitment had a meeting on January 10 – 12, 2012 at the Provincialate. The meeting was a regular semestral meeting where concerns of initial formation and vocation were discussed and deliberated. The three-year development plan for initial formation was also tackled. The other [...]

The Philippine Catholic HIV/AIDS Network, dubbed the action force of the Philippine Church in responding to the challenges of HIV/AIDS,  held its First General Assembly on February 10, 2011 at the Fray Clemente Holiness Center-San Juan de Dios Education Foundation in Pasay.  It was attended by representatives of 37 Catholic organizations and congregations.  The Network [...]

Catholic bishops agreed to support the fight against the spread of HIV/AIDS in their dioceses. This was the fruit of a bishops’ seminar on HIV/AIDS held in January 27, 2011 at the Pius XII Center, Manila,  organized by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines-National Secretariat for Social Action-Caritas Filipinas with the joint support of [...]