Luke 19:1-10 – Fr Fernando Armellini SCJ Claretian Publications, Macau In today’s passage, it is Zacchaeus – a publican, considered to be evil by all – who is in search of Jesus. By a strange twist of fate the name…
Month: November 2019
HOW TO TRAIN CHURCH CHOIRS (9) – Let the children join a choir
– Aurelio Porfiri When talking about choirs, we have mentioned the difficulties and the struggles to establish a good musical program in the parish or in the church that one attends. These difficulties and struggles are real and we cannot…
CHRISTIANITY: an enemy of progress?
– Corrado Gnerre I recently saw the film Angels and Demons, based on the novel of the same name by Dan Brown. It seems to me that after The Da Vinci Code, which denies the historicity of the Gospels, Angels…
THE CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH ON THE DEATH PENALTY – From acceptance to abolition
– Fr Fausto Gomez, OP We present a concise summary of the teaching of the Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC) and comment on the teachings and development of the doctrine on the death penalty in CCC from 1992, through…
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis: Synodality brought pagans to ‘reject idolatry’
– Tej Francis Email: tejfrancis@gmail.com (CNA) Pope Francis said Wednesday that the first Christian evangelization of the pagans opened up “a very lively controversy” as the early Church discerned how to absorb new members from outside the people of Israel. …
NEWS BRIEFS
– Tej Francis ASIA The unprecedented scale of anti-Christian persecution in Asia An elderly Christian woman in a village in India’s Tamil Nadu state was beaten by extremists. The incident is part of a surge in attacks against Christians in…
CARITAS WANTS TO OPEN A CENTRAL KITCHEN NEXT YEAR – Nam Van hosts 50th edition of Macau’s largest charity bazaar
– Marco Carvalho Along with the “Walk for a Million,” organized by Ou Mun Iat Pou, it is the charity event that mobilizes the largest number of people and institutions in Macau and this year should be no exception. The…
IT IS NOT JUST ABOUT MIGRANTS – Inclusiveness is the word
– Ross Belle Balatbat The 105th World Day of Migrants and Refugees (WDMR) last Sunday, 27 October, at the Escola São Paulo saw, for the first time, the involvement of the Pastoral Council of the Pastoral Care Center for Filipino…
CHANCERY NOTICE – Dispensation from Obligation to Participate in Mass and to Abstain from
CN/23/026/2019 Servile Labour on the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception for 2019 The 8th of December falls on the Sunday of Advent this year, thus the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Principal Patronal Solemnity of…