Ross Belle Balatbat Last May 27 in Chan Meng Kam (CMK), to celebrate the Feast of St Isidore the Worker, a taste of the Pahiyas Festival from Lucban, Quezon (Philippines) was offered 32 different Filipino communities. It was a well-participated event…
Month: June 2018
POPE FRANCIS APPOINTS APOSTOLIC VISITOR TO THE PARISH OF MEDJUGORJE – A journey from grace to grace
Miguel Augusto (*) On Thursday, May 31, the Holy Father appointed Archbishop Henryk Hoser S.A. – archbishop emeritus of Warsaw-Prague (Poland) – Apostolic Visitor of a special character for the parish of Medjugorje, for an indefinite period and ad nutum…
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH SYD GOLDSMITH – “Hong Kong on the brink”
Aurelio Porfiri There are several scholars and witnesses that have reflected on the recent turbulent past of China, including the one of Hong Kong and Macau. The 20th century was an age of great transformation in Chinese society and there…
GREAT FIGURES OF THE MISSIONARY WORK – Bengal and the Kingdom of the Dragon (7)
Joaquim Magalhães de Castro Despite religious differences, relations between the Portuguese missionaries and the Muslim community, which had great respect for them, were almost always cordial. Such was the case with Father Simão Figueiredo, who had lived there for decades,…
I almost changed my religion
Dasha Mei Secretario dela Cruz Before the Confirmation classes started, I wasn’t ready and I was also thinking about changing my religion. I wanted to satisfy my spiritual needs but I didn’t find it in the Roman Catholic Church because…
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ISRAEL “THE OTHER VOICE” REACHES OUT TO GAZAN PALESTINIANS (Al-Bushra) “The Other Voice” is a grassroots movement founded by Israelis living in the town of Sderot and other locations near to the Gaza Strip border. The aim of “The…
BITE-SIZE PHILOSOPHY (66) – Do good intentions suffice to make an act good?
[PHOTO] Himanshu Gunarathna at Pixabay Rev José Mario O Mandía We have studied both objective norms (moral law) and subjective norms (conscience) of morality. The next question is: what aspects of an action (“action” can also mean “thoughts,” “desires,” “attitudes”)…
CHURCH FATHERS (20) – Saint Pamphilus of Caesarea
Anastasios We just had a glimpse inside the influence that a thinker as Origen had in his time and well beyond. This is an influence that cannot be overlooked. Indeed we can judge from following writers the extent of the…
THE “FILM” OF CORPUS CHRISTI – 3RD June 2018 – SOLEMNITY OF THE MOST HOLY BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST (CORPUS CHRISTI)
Ex 24:3-8, Heb 9:11-15, Mk 14:12-16, 22-26 Edmond Lo www.FLL.cc Don’t know about you, but to me the scenes that appear before my eyes as today’s readings are solemnly proclaimed in the liturgy of the Word are more vivid, colorful,…
GREAT FIGURES OF THE MISSIONARY WORK – Bengal and the Kingdom of the Dragon (6)
Joaquim Magalhães de Castro To my surprise I notice that in Hugli there is someone aware of some of the aspects connected with the saga of the Jesuits João Cabral and Estevão Cacela. This is the case of local parish…