The Philippines was an exception, in its receptivity both to Catholicism and to the Spanish language. The mission lands where “traditional Catholicism,” as we now call it — the only possible ...

The traditional Catholicism that is the setting of that backward-looking novel included a lot of looking backward itself, of course. That’s what made Catholicism traditional. For believers ...

He read the Robert Harris book on which the movie was based and determined that Berger’s film was “about how the traditional ...

The Catholic faithful in Manila marked Ash Wednesday with long lines stretching outside Baclaran Church as they waited to receive the traditional ash cross on their foreheads. The ashes ...