Church seeks heaven’s help for priests

THE Catholic Church has deemed it necessary to seek divine intervention to address the shortage of priests in the country.

The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippnes (CBCP) president, Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas, has issued a circular calling on all clergy, superiors of religious communities and heads of secular institutes in the archdiocese of Lingayen-Dagupan to pray the Oratio Imperata for new and idealistic priests who will bravely spread the truth and the words of God amid a rash of unnecessary killings and alleged persecution of the Church.