Year: 2019

– REV. JOSÉ MARIO O. MANDÍA “What difference is there between having faith and not having one?” asked a university student who professed no religious belief. “If one has faith, in particular the Catholic faith,” I told him, “he knows…

– Fr Fausto Gomez, OP Pope Francis’ Apostolic Letter in the form of Motu Proprio begins thus: “He opened [“aperuit”] their minds to understand the Scriptures (Lk 24:45)… Without the Lord who opens our minds to them, it is impossible…

CBCP News – Fr. Leonard E. Dollentas Pope Francis has recently appointed Filipino Archbishop Bernardito Auza as the new Apostolic Nuncio to Spain. The Holy See’s Press Office published his appointment on October 1, 2019. His appointment came as the…

– Joaquim Magalhães de Castro Cabral says, in his letter entitled Relation of the Mission of the Kingdom of Utsang, head of the Potent, that, since their arrival, the king of Central Tibet treated them with great consideration, an attitude…

– Maria Kwak It was the first of November, 1586 when the Augustinians first arrived in Macau. Macau was then a Portuguese colony, governed by the Spanish Empire’s Felipe II (r. 1581-1598). The Spanish Friar, Francisco Manrique (d. 1588) with…