An Italian shrine to Our Lady of Caravaggio near Milan is said to have its origin in 1432, when the Mother of God is reported to have appeared in a vision to a sick peasant woman and pointed out to…
Month: August 2018
NEWS BRIEFS
– Tej Francis VATICAN CITY POPE FRANCIS PRAYS FOR JAPAN AMID DEADLY FLOODING (CNA/EWTN News) Pope Francis sent his prayers and condolences to Japan Monday following the death of at least 119 people in some of the worst flooding and…
PROF CRISTIAN MENDOZA ON CHURCH MEDIA IN MACAU AND HONG KONG – Transmitting the beauty of the Christian Faith
– Jasmin Yiu Rev. Prof. Cristian Ovando Mendoza, Professor of the School of Church Communications at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome, visited Macau and Hong Kong to promote the importance of Church Communication as well as…
ON PILGRIMAGE (6) – Our Lady of Fatima
– Sr Margaret Fung This is our last stop. We will spend three days in Fatima after leaving France. I was glad to discover the name Fatima was a Muslim name. It dates back to the early years when the…
THERE’S STILL LITTLE AWARENESS ON INCLUDING DISABLED PEOPLE – Psychologist Ana Helena Amaral on Macau Society
– Pedro Daniel Oliveira Local Government and NGOs favor the inclusion of disabled people, but there is resistance from the society, says Psychologist Ana Helena Amaral, for whom a mentality change is needed. In an interview with O CLARIM, she…
TIME TO PRAY AND LOOK FOR DIOCESAN VOCATIONS – Feast Day Of The Assumption Of Mary
– Pedro Daniel Oliveira On Wednesday, August 15, the Diocese of Macau celebrated the Feast Day of the Assumption of Mary, with a Solemn Mass in the Cathedral presided over by Bishop Stephen Lee Bun-sang.
THE TRAPPISTINE NUNS OF THE MONASTERY OF OUR LADY STAR OF HOPE – Fidelity and Witness in Macau
– Fr Leonard E. Dollentas I have had a lifelong curiosity about the Trappistine nuns. How do they managed to wake up so early in the morning and carried on to chant the psalms, and be still in tune? How…
ANIMA CHRISTI – Music by Aurelio Porfiri
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THEOLOGIAN PAUL THIGPEN TALKS ABOUT HIS BOOK SAINTS WHO BATTLED SATAN – “To continue to reject truthfulness, seems to me more the expression of a blind and irrational belief”
– Miguel Augusto In an interview granted to Aleteia in 2016, theologian and professor Paul Thigpen spoke about his book Saints Who Battled Satan, published in November 2015, which he considered to be a continuation of his bestselling Manual for…
CHURCH FATHERS (25) – Saint Hippolytus of Rome
We don’t know a lot about Saint Hippolytus of Rome’s (170-235) historical circumstances. He was a disciple of St Irenaeus and a friend of Origen. Probably he was a Bishop, but we don’t know much more about this fact.