Second National Congress of the Clergy

THE national media spotlight shined intensely on the 2nd National Congress of the Clergy, as the Catholic media joined forces in giving them blow by blow account of the event.
At least eleven Catholic news agencies have collaborated in a social media effort to cover the congress from print, broadcast, to online and then feed it [...]

MANILA, Jan. 29, 2010─The five-day 2nd national congress of the clergy (NCC II) which ended today drew some 5,542 priests and bishops representing 87 arch/dioceses nationwide and few priests abroad.
Organizers said the surge in the number of participants was unexpected that they ran out of kits and other materials.
Former Ambassador Henrietta de Villa, chairperson of [...]

MANILA, Jan 29, 2010─The five-day 2nd National Congress of the Clergy came to a close today with around 5,000 priests and bishops walking the 1.2 kilometers distance from World Trade Center to Cuneta Astrodome for the 3:30 p.m. Mass.
The clergy, led by their respective bishops marched through Roxas Boulevard towards Cuneta Astrodome in Pasay City [...]

MANILA, Jan. 28, 2010─Saying that ordained life entails living a life in imitation of Jesus Crucified, Cebu Archbishop Ricardo Cardinal Vidal said priests, as disciples of Jesus, must learn from his examples.
In his homily in today’s mass, the cardinal explained that what priests learn from theology does not come close to the knowledge they gain [...]

MANILA, Jan. 28, 2010—The more than 5,000 priests and bishops’ participants to the ongoing national congress of the clergy currently being held at World Trade Center, Pasay City, have donated one million pesos to the devastated Caribbean nation of Haiti.
A special collection that yielded 988,675.35 pesos was made during the morning mass on the third [...]

MANILA, Jan. 28, 2010─Two Catholic priests have been rushed to a Catholic-run medical center nearest the World Trade Center at mid-afternoon today after complaining of severe chest pains.
Dr. Ricardo Ledesma, head of the 2nd National Congress of the Clergy’s Medical Team, confirmed the emergency cases they attended to and referred to San Juan de Dios [...]