A personal prelature for Filipino migrant workers?
September 13, 2023
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CWN Editor's Note: The chairman of the Filipino bishops’ commission for migrants has suggested that a personal prelature could be established to supervise the pastoral care of Filipino migrants working in other countries.
Bishop Narciso Abellana, in a statement issued in advance of the World Day for Migrants and Refugees (September 24), said that “the establishment of a prelature could be particularly useful to accompany Filipino workers abroad, especially those living in areas without Catholic chaplaincies.”
About 13 million Filipinos—more than 10% of the country’s entire population—is currently living and working abroad. Many are employed in oil-rich countries in the Middle East, where Catholics must contend with restrictions imposed by Muslim societies.
A personal prelature is set up to provide pastoral care of a group of Catholics, organized not by geographical territory (as with a diocese), but by the particular needs of that group. Today the only personal prelature is Opus Dei.
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