Robaird O’Cearbhaill Hong Kong Correspondent In East Asia most children die of preventable diseases, for example diarrhoea and pneumonia, 63% before 5 years old, from unhygienic surroundings, and largely, because they don’t have soap. That’s where Soap Cycling comes in, making soap available free.…
Anastasios The 5th century was a time of struggles, even if Christianity became free (together with other religions) the century before. We have also in this time great men and women who fight to build the Lord’s Kingdom here on…
Enrico Finotti How can you sit at the seat worthily? It is necessary to start from the principle that sitting at the seat is not simply a functional act of pause or rest, but a liturgical act of representation in…
Rev José Mario O Mandía We have seen that God is eternal because he does not change, and hence, is not subject to time. But a new question arises. If his being does not change, neither will his thoughts change.…
On 23 May, Thursday, at 6:00 PM, the Historical Society of the Independence of Portugal (SHIP) handed a diploma to O Clarim for its “unequivocal and praiseworthy work … in the dissemination of the Portuguese Language and Culture in Macau”…
Acts 15:1-2; 22-29, Rev 21:10-14; 22-23, Jn 14:23-29 May Tam Today’s Gospel Reading is part of Jesus’ Last Discourse (Chapter 14 to 17). Earlier Jesus had given His disciples a farewell gift: a new commandment of brotherly love (Jn 13:34).…
PHOTO CAPTION: Pope Benedict XV (1914-1922) Benedict XV revitalized missionary activities after World War I. He has been referred to as the “Pope of Missions.” Benedict XV was devoted to the Blessed Virgin Mary and authorized the Feast of Mary,…
Aurelio Porfiri In a small church near where I live in Rome, a church with origins in the Middle Ages, there is a painting in front of which I often linger. In this painting by an eighteenth-century author, there is…
On January 6, 1412, Joan of Arc was born to pious parents of the French peasant class in the obscure village of Domremy, near the province of Lorraine. At a very early age, she was said to have heard the…
Joaquim Magalhães de Castro From the testimony given by Estevão Cacela, we can deduce that the Jesuits traveled with Shabdrung to different parts of the kingdom before lodging definitively in Chagri. Father Cacela reminds us that “in these mountains, and…