October 7, 2011: PCF 50th Anniversary
The Pontificio Collegio Filippino is celebrating its 50th Anniversary this year 2011. The inauguration took place on October 7, 1961, when Pope John XXIII came over to bless the new institution.
This celebration is both for the present resident priests, and for the Alumni Priests and Bishops.
Fr. Midyphil Billones Doctoral Defense
Fr. Midyphil Billones, a priest of the Archdiocese of Jaro, Philippines, defended his Doctoral Dissertation last June 3, 2011, at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.
Writing on "The Ecclesiological Principle of Synodality in Eugenio Corecco," Fr. Dodong, as we fondly call him, explained that Bishop Corecco was a Theologian disguised as a Canon Lawyer belonging to the school of Munich, whose scholarly research left a trail-blazing legacy for the Church "in this contemporary re-awakening on the principle of synodality overflowing from the communion ecclesiology in Vatican II."