Fr. Soc wants Sunday mass in every barangay

Posted on May 12, 2013 - Filed Under Inside News, News | Leave a Comment

LET’S celebrate a Sunday Mass in every barangay. This was the call made by Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas to priests in the archdiocese in a pastoral directive dated May 7.

HEAVENLY GRILL

Posted on May 5, 2013 - Filed Under Inside News, News, Photo Gallery | Leave a Comment

HEAVENLY GRILL—Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas will not be left out of the Bangus Festival Kalutan ed Dalan event on April 30. He gamely sets up a grill just outside the gates of the St. John Metropolitan Cathedral, burns the charcoal and broils his select bangus for his next meal. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao) Back to [...]

Archbishop Soc issues 10-point guide on choosing candidates

Posted on April 22, 2013 - Filed Under Headlines, News | Leave a Comment

AFTER declining to endorse any local candidate, not even revealing his personal choices, Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas issued a 10-point guideline that could help voters in deciding whom to vote for in the May 13 elections. Archbishop Soc issued a pastoral letter read last April 14 in masses in all churches within his congregation.

Punchline

Posted on April 15, 2013 - Filed Under Opinion, Punchline | Leave a Comment

Overseas kabaleyans as stakeholders By Ermin Garcia Jr.   LOCAL candidates should follow the lead of Sen. Alan Cayetano, the re-electionist senator who did the first ever “Google Hang-Out” in the country in an attempt to engage voters overseas in a discussion of vital issues close to their hearts. Google Hangout is a new internet [...]

Archbishop Soc won’t influence voters

Posted on April 15, 2013 - Filed Under Headlines, News | Leave a Comment

NO TEAM PATAY OR BUHAY SAN FABIAN–”I will never ask my flock whom to vote” Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas said Tuesday he will never ask, much less demand, that his flock vote for certain candidates.

Comelec brass: Watch the PCOS machines

Posted on April 15, 2013 - Filed Under Headlines, News | Leave a Comment

SAN FABIAN—Candidates and voters can kiss the wholesale cheating prevalent in the past goodbye. According to Comelec Executive Director Ferdinand Rafanan, the counting of and counting and canvassing of votes, which account for 25 percent of the problem of Comelec, has been addressed with the shift to automated election system (AEC) from the manual system.

Punchline

Posted on March 31, 2013 - Filed Under Opinion, Punchline | Leave a Comment

Judas 9 on Holy Week By Ermin Garcia Jr.   THE unrepentant and incorrigible Judas 9 in the Dagupan City council, many of whom are in the MadiLIM and MakuLIMLIM ticket, tried but failed to reenact Judas’ biblical betrayal of Jesus in observance of the Holy Week. Reminiscent of their perceived successful attempt to railroad [...]

Archbishop Soc asks BSL: “Where is God in this government?”

Posted on March 30, 2013 - Filed Under Headlines, News | Leave a Comment

CITY HALL VIOLATES ORDINANCE LINGAYEN-DAGUPAN Archbishop Socrates Villegas is upset with the administration of Dagupan Mayor Benjamin Lim. Reason?  At presstime, March 27, commercial stalls are being set up outside the St. John the Evangelist Metropolitan Cathedral for the Bangus Festival with the authority of the mayor’s office. “Where is respect, where is God in this [...]

Archdiocese bids Pope Benedict “God bless”

Posted on March 3, 2013 - Filed Under Inside News, News | Comments Off

CALASIAO—The Lingayen-Dagupan Archdiocese held a mass at 12 noon Thursday presided over by Archbishop Socrates Villegas at the Sts. Peter and Paul Parish here as Pope Benedict XVI officially leaves the papacy. The mass, attended by priests, seminarians, and the laity, honored the love shown by Pope Benedict XVI to God and the Church, Villegas [...]

Fluvial parade for St. John

Posted on December 30, 2012 - Filed Under Headlines, News | Comments Off

SOME 35 boats artfully adorned joined the fluvial parade contest in honor of Dagupan City’s patron St. John the Evangelist. On the afternoon of the Feast Day of the fisherfolk saint, the boats cruised from the Star Plaza Hotel dock and ended at the Babaliwan in Poblacion Oeste. A procession led by Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates [...]

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