A relief showing Zeus and Leto with their offspring Apollo and Artemis to the right. 420-410 BCE. (Archaeological Museum of Brauron, Greece) – Rev José Mario O Mandía Man’s nature makes him a rational and a social being. Does it…
Month: August 2018
WHAT THE HUMAN EYES CANNOT SEE – 12 August 2018, 19TH Sunday In Ordinary Time (B)
1 Kgs 19:4-8, Eph 4:30-5:2, Jn 6:41-51 Edmond Lo www.FLL.cc Summer in Toronto is a beauty. Too bad it is so short. This summer of mine began with a 8-day cruise trip from Vancouver to Alaska, on which I was…
GREAT FIGURES OF THE MISSIONARY WORK – Bengal and the Kingdom of the Dragon (17)
– Joaquim Magalhães de Castro With an architecture similar to that of the world-famous Ellora caves, dating from the sixth or seventh century BC, the Hayagriv Madhava is one of the oldest centers of Vishnu worship. It is also considered…
COMMUNIST ARCHITECTURE AND CATHOLIC CHURCHES
Interior of the Novoslobodskaya subway station in Moscow. Photo by adorerussia.com. – Vittorio Messori Can Comrade Stalin come to mind by participating in a Mass? It happened to me: in a church of “architecture” (the name of this illustrious art…
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH FATHER JEAN-PIERRE CHARBONNIER MEP (1) – Christianity in China
– Aurelio Porfiri One of the reference books for those who want to know about the evolutions and involutions of Christianity in China is Christians in China, by Father Jean-Pierre Charbonnier MEP, also available in English from Ignatius Press. An…
MARIAN APPARITIONS (78) – Aparecida, Brazil
Brazil is the largest Roman Catholic country in the world. In October of 1717, Dom Pedro de Almedida, Count of Assumar, was on his way to the state of Minas Gerais from Sao Paulo. He would have to pass by…
NEWS BRIEFS
– Tej Francis DERRY, NORTHERN IRELAND CATHOLIC CHURCH IN NORTHERN IRELAND HIT WITH SECTARIAN GRAFFITI (CNA/EWTN News) A Catholic church in Northern Ireland was vandalized Tuesday morning with sectarian graffiti, upsetting parishioners and local leaders. “We never had a problem…
EARTHQUAKE IN INDONESIA – Caritas working to help survivors, rebuild the country
– Francesca Merlo (Vatican News) After having been struck by two earthquakes in the past week, the situation in Indonesia – more specifically on the islands of Lombok and Bali – is drastic. With the death toll continuously rising, along…
FEAST OF SAINT LAWRENCE’S CHURCH – Mass and confirmations cap celebration
– Pedro Daniel Oliveira On Sunday, August 12, the Macau Diocese celebrates the “Parish Day of Saint Lawrence’s Church”, with a solemn Mass presided over by Msgr Stephen Lee Bun-sang, during which 7 parishioners will receive the sacraments of confirmation.
HUMANAE VITAE: 50 YEARS LATER – Still about Love
Eduardo Rodriguez Calsado (Catholic News Agency) July 25 marks the 50th anniversary of Pope Paul VI’s encyclical on married love and procreation, Humanae Vitae (On Human Life) which reaffirmed the Church’s teaching on the regulation of births. It was the…