The Council presents us all with a vision for the renewal of the Church, the whole Church in the Philippines: "This is our vision. That all may have life. We shall have to create a free nation: where human dignity and solidarity are respected and promoted; where moral...

It is very difficult to evaluate events in the Church in the Philippines after the Second Plenary Council of the Philippines (PCP II) without having an understanding of what kind of council PCP II is. This understanding, therefore, will be our starting point. Then, we...

Pope John XXIII set in motion the greatest event in the recent history of Roman Catholicism when he summoned in 1959 the Second Vatican Council; he envisioned this assembly as focused on "how we ought to renew ourselves, so that we may be found increasingly faithful...

It has been said that the camel is an animal designed by a committee. By accommodating everyone's taste you end up with an ungainly, improbable type of beast. In the case of the Second Plenary Council of the Philippines (PCP II), which was in session from...

This article is an updating of statistics pertaining to the Catholic Church in the Philippines. The general structure of the article follows the pattern of its two predecessors, published in 1984 and 1987. It presents in a kind of synthetic view, and has reduced to...

Jaime Cardinal L. Sin, D.D., "Carving Out the 'Asian Face' of Christ: Challenge to a New Ecclesiastical Faculty," Landas 13/2 (1999): 100-105. Address delivered by His Eminence Jaime Cardinal L. Sin, Archbishop of Manila, on the official declaration of Loyola School...

What might be called “Filipino theology”? What were and are its concerns? What is its reality? Whither is it now bound? I. Perhaps we can begin this way: By common agreement, I think, more than any other single event in the past century of the history of Christianity,...

In exploring the pastoral implications of basic ecclesial communities (BECs) in the Philippine Church today, I take as point of departure the section from PCP II's Acts entitled, "Basic Ecclesial Communities: An Expression of Renewal". Belonging to Part II: A Church...