– Marco Carvalho The University of Saint Joseph hosted last week the first of a series of lectures about the importance of the human factor in social services. The initiative, promoted by the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University…
Year: 2019
DOMINUS DABIT BENIGNITATEM – Music by Aurelio Porfiri
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CHURCH FATHERS (78) – Saint Gregory the Great
– Anastasios There are not many popes that are called “the Great.” Probably the most famous of them is Saint Gregory (540-604). He came from a very important family, the gens anicia, a family that gave the Church great names…
BITE-SIZE THEOLOGY (54) – What causes moral evil?
– Rev José Mario O Mandía Aside from physical evil, there is moral evil or sin. Sin arose from the free decision of those creatures with intellect and will: angels and men. The CCC (no 311) teaches us: “Angels and…
LOVING THE SINNER – 2nd November 2019, 31st Sunday of the Year
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…
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. …