Roman Catholic Church

Mike's note: while watching "Harapan" on ABS-CBN last night and surveying the faces in the anti-RH crowd, I spotted someone I...

Attention fellow heathens, blasphemers, filibusters, fornicators, teroristas, and Nazis of all colors! If you don't have any plans for this Sunday evening, you might want to take a look at ABS-CBN's upcoming HARAPAN debate.

Whatever the CBCP decides, excommunication is their call -- the Vatican's, to be more precise. But consider this: If indirectly causing an abortion is grounds for excommunication, then the CBCP should excommunicate themselves first.

Despite being a silly headline, this is good news coming from the Roman Catholic church's sex abuse cases in Ireland. Because...

This is not about unborn children. This is not about the RH Bill. What we are seeing is a war of attrition against sex, fought one village at a time.

Less than 2 years ago, Aljazeera did a feature on the RH debates in the Philippines: In their most recent episode, Aljazeera's...

“Tama na! Di dapat makialam ang pari, sa aming mga ari!” (Enough! Priests should not interfere with our private parts!) This was...

As pro-choice and anti-choice advocates continue to debate the morality of contraceptives, some priests have discovered a way of avoiding HIV...

The answer ultimately lies in what it means to be a Catholic. As a noun, Catholic is defined as "a member of the Catholic Church, especially a Roman Catholic." And what does it mean to be a member of such church? Does it require one to acknowledge the infallibility of the Church's teachings including Humanae Vitae, which maintains that sex must always be kept open to procreatio