– 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…
Year: 2018
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…
ON PILGRIMAGE (5) – Our Lady of Lourdes
– Sr Margaret Fung On the 6th day of our pilgrimage, we are going…
FORGING UNITY THROUGH DANCE – Teacher And Director Nicole Azevedo
– Pedro Daniel Oliveira Nicole Azevedo Barros is director and teacher of Nicole Dance School, which works with children and adults in different ways. The group from Cape Verde took part in the International Youth Dance Festival. Speaking to O…
SAME DOCTRINE, DIFFERENT APPLICATION – Pope Francis: ‘death penalty inadmissible’
– Linda Bordoni (Vatican News) Pope Francis has approved a new revision of paragraph number 2267 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, according to which “a new understanding has emerged of the significance of penal sanctions imposed by the…
FAITH ILLUSTRATED – Creed 07
Jesus Christ, Only Begotten Son of God (6)
BITE-SIZE PHILOSOPHY (75) – And how about solidarity?
Bayanihan. http://mattersmost.deviantart.com – Rev José Mario O Mandía Last time we spoke about the third principle — subsidiarity. Today, we will take a look at its complementary principle: the principle of solidarity. We could say that in the same way…
THE EUCHARIST (4) – Thanksgiving and Praise to the Father
– Joni Cheng The Eucharist – Jesus Christ has offered Himself as our “Paschal Lamb” (1 Cor 5:7) and “Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world” who sacrificed Himself on the Cross for man as the…
APOLOGIA – Is Jesus the Son of God?
– Anastasios Objection 1: How can Jesus be the son of God and then pretending to be God? Does it mean God has a wife? Objection 2: Jesus call himself “Son of Man.” Does it mean he is claiming that…