[照片說明] A six-week human embryo. – FAUSTO GOMEZ OP The word “person” is the name of dignity (“nomen dignitatis”). St Thomas Aquinas explains that the word “dignity” is reserved exclusively to the most excellent beings, namely, God, angels and humans:…
– Aurelio Porfiri The musical history of Macau is a largely unexplored field. In the last decades, some studies have started to bring to the attention of the musicological community some names, some places, some events. But still there is…
– Joaquim Magalhães de Castro To a Portuguese, like Cacela, hearing about grapes certainly attracted his attention and although this fruit did not grow in Bhutan but in another place across the border, “in a town called Compo, which is…
– Tej Francis MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA FIRST PERMIT ISSUED UNDER AUSTRALIAN STATE’S ASSISTED SUICIDE, EUTHANASIA LAW (CNA) The first permit for medically assisted death in Victoria was issued in recent weeks, less than a month after the Australian state’s legalization of…
Cardinal Fernando Filoni delivers the homily in the Mass he celebrated at the University of St Joseph during his visit to Macau in March of this year A new seminary directly depending on the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples…
– ROBAIRD O’CEARBHAILL Hong Kong Correspondent Italy shares with China top spot for UNESCO World Heritage Sites’ longest list at 55. In 2005 Macau’s historic center was chronologically the 35th site in China. Item (1), of the cultural criteria, for…
The Faculty of Religious Studies of the University of Saint Joseph (USJ) was joined by the Renmin University of China’s School of Liberal Arts in hosting the Comparative Literature and Religious Studies round table of the XXII Congress of the…
– Maria Sheli Kwak Situated at the highest point in Macau, the Capelinha de Nossa Senhora das Neves (Guia Chapel) stands inside the Fortaleza da Guia (Guia Fortress). Popularly known as Guia Chapel derived from the fortress and the lighthouse…
CN/14/017/2019 Pastoral Appointments Bishop Stephen LEE has made the following appointments, effective 1 September 2019: Rev. Jojo Peter ANCHERIL, CMF, ceases to be Parish Priest in St. Lawrence Parish and Procurator of St. Joseph Seminary; he will be given a…
– Miguel Augusto (*) The 30th edition of “Mladifest” started yesterday in Medjugorje. The Youth Festival had been taking place since 1989 in the small Franciscan parish village of Bosnia and Herzegovina, today a Marian Shrine. Father Danko Perutina, former…