Calamba is about 45 kilometers southeast of Manila. The IWLI performed rites similar to the Sacraments of the Catholic Church -- except the Sacrament of Reconciliation -- and conducted healing ...

As the birthdate of Jose Rizal approaches this year (June 19) amid many public attacks against the Catholic Church, we should ask: Can one admire Rizal—who criticized the Catholic Church—and defend ...

A 22-year-old man from Calamba ... meant one was banished from the Catholic Church and condemned to hellfire after death. In the years that followed, Rizal completed two novels that inspired ...

The main street was…Calle Real, where stood the church, the Casa del Gobierno, the Casa de Hacienda, the plaza, and the market…The population was around 5,000 in Rizal’s time; and Calamba ...

In his home town of Calamba a monument ... the indigenous baybayin script. Catholic Church dominance It is something of a cliché to affirm that Dr José Rizal’s thought is as relevant as ...

Pastells’ letters became more agitated, accusing Rizal of having been influenced by Protestants, Masons and “philosophers of the French Revolution.” There is only one “fundamental truth,” Pastells ...

A question primarily, if not exclusively, addressed to the Church ... Filipino nation has honored Rizal and Gomburza as national heroes, but as a Catholic nation that holds the love of country ...

A netizen shared a photo featuring a sign of “City of Calamba”, Rizal’s hometown, standing proudly in Wilhelmsfeld, Germany. Facebook user and regular Inquirer contributor Gideon Lasco ...

President Benigno Aquino III arrived before 8 a.m. Sunday at the birthplace of the Philippine national hero Dr. Jose Rizal in Calamba, Laguna, to mark Rizal’s 150th birth anniversary. Aquino ...

ROSELLER "Ross" Rizal will take his oath of office as the new local chief executive of Calamba City on June 19, in honor of the birth anniversary of Dr. Jose Rizal, in Calamba, Laguna. Fittingly ...

IT is not the easiest question to ask, but after the passage of more than 100 years, I believe someone should ask it on behalf of this predominantly Catholic ... to the Church, and one it has not ...