The Bite-Size Philosophy (English edition) series that ran from January 2017 to September 2018 is now available in Amazon in both paperback and Kindle format. The title The Leaves are Green in Summer was taken from GK Chesterton’s Heretics, where…
Month: June 2019
BITE-SIZE THEOLOGY (35) – Can God do whatever he pleases?
– Rev José Mario O Mandía “He does whatever he pleases” (Psalm 115:3). Through reason we discover many attributes of God. Our faith confirms these attributes. Among all these divine attributes, however, we are obliged by the Creed to declare…
THE PARACLETE IN THE LIFE OF THE CHURCH – United and moved by one Spirit
– Miguel Augusto This Sunday, June 9, the Church celebrates the Solemnity of Pentecost. The Church instituted by Jesus of Nazareth and initiated by His Apostles, gathered together in prayer in the upper room, with Mary Most Holy, awaited the…
HUMAN CLONING (1) – Description and kinds
FEATURED IMAGE: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Dolly_clone.svg – Fausto Gomez Op We plan to develop the challenging topic Human Cloning in three pieces: the first will describe the main concepts and distinctions related to human cloning; the second will study reproductive human cloning from…
AN IMAGINARY DIALOGUE – Agatha & Frederic
– Carlos M. Frota I imagined for this week’s chronicle a dialogue between two close friends, Agatha and Frederic, so close that very often they are together to exchange ideas and evaluate the world’s events. And because they like the…
ALCUIN OF YORK – Know yourself first if you want to know others
– Aurelio Porfiri In recent decades, one of the dominant questions is that of Christian identity. Sometimes it seems to us that this identity is experienced as a burden, as something to be freed from to open up to the…
ST ANTHONY GIANELLI – Zealous shepherd of Bobbio, Italy
Anthony Maria Gianelli was born in 1789 into a middle-class family living near Genoa in the north of Italy. As a child, people were often struck by his gentle nature, industriousness, and extraordinary intelligence. When he came of age, the…
ASK THE LITURGIST – About the microphone
– Enrico Finotti I was struck by the affirmation of a priest friend: “Do you know who did the liturgical reform?” – he told me – “The microphone” – he replied. Could be? This is an interesting question. Let’s try…
DISNEY’S FILM ALADDIN FROM A CHRISTIAN PERSPECTIVE – When did you last let your heart decide?
– Maria Kwak Aladdin is a love story between Princess Jasmine and a young street rat Aladdin. The song ‘A Whole New World’ from the film is well known through Disney’s 1992 animated version of Aladdin. One phrase that throws…
PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE – Message on the occasion of the Buddhist feast of Vesakh/Hanamatsuri 2019
Pope Francis meets some Buddhist monks. (Photo: Osservatore Romano / Aci group) Vesakh is the most important feast for Buddhists: it commemorates the main events in the life of Buddha.