Luke 21:5-19 – Fr. Fernando Armellini SCJ Claretian Publications, Macau Luke wrote his Gospel around the year 85 AD. In the fifty years that passed since the death and resurrection of Jesus, there were wars, political revolutions, catastrophes and the…
Year: 2019
FROM THE BOOK OF PSALMS TO THE RESPONSORIAL PSALM (1) – The Book Of Psalms: an introduction
– Aurelio Porfiri There is no Christian who is not familiar with the Book of Psalms: these 150 poems are the base for our way of praying. And for us Catholics, the liturgy is filled with texts taken from the…
GREAT FIGURES OF THE MISSIONARY WORK – Bengal and the Kingdom of the Dragon (77)
– Joaquim Magalhรฃes de Castro As we have already said, the attempt to convert the Bhutanese was unsuccessful, and Fathers Joรฃo Cabral and Estevao Cacela must have felt very frustrated, because they had labored a great deal. Only centuries later,…
SAINT PETER – The triumph of Catholic faith
PHOTO: Wikimedia – Anastasios As was said previously, we may regard Saint Peter’s Basilica as the most famous Catholic church in the world. It is one of the four so called โmajor Basilicas,โ all of them in Rome. There is…
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH DANIEL DE WEYER, CEO AND FOUNDER OF CRYPTOWORLD LIMITED HONG KONG – My character was formed in childhood, along with the Ten Commandments
– ROBAIRD O’CEARBHAILL With decades of senior executive experience in international banking, now in fintech, crypto, investment and board governance, Daniel De Weyer, believes in reflection and positivity. His Catholic childhood largely made him what he is today, and what…
VATICAN CITY – Remember the final judgement, Pope Francis says at Mass for recently deceased bishops
– Tej Francis Email: tejfrancis@gmail.com (CNA) Pope Francis urged Catholics to meditate on the final judgement at a Mass offered Monday for the souls of cardinals and bishops who died within the past year. โSaint Ignatius suggests, before making an…
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– Tej Francis Email: tejfrancis@gmail.com NAIROBI, AFRICA African bishops say UN Nairobi Summit will be destructive of pro-life agenda Bishops in Africa have raised concerns about the agenda of the Nairobi Summit, a United Nations gathering being held next week,…
CANTATA MACAU 2019 PROMOTES MUSIC TOURISM IN MACAU
PHOTO: Randy Iblasin – Rachel Luna Peralta With the theme โMusic is Life,โ Cantata Macau 2019 gathered 11 choirs from Macao and various countries like Indonesia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Singapore, mainland China, and Hong Kong for the 1st Macao…
ROLE OF THE SOCIETY OF JESUS IN THE GLOBALIZATION OF CHINESE GOODS IN ANALYSIS – Missionaries and merchants. The Jesuits as agents of commerce
– Marco Carvalho Missionaries, educators, scientists, mathematicians and also merchants. The little known role of the members of the Society of Jesus as agents of commerce set the tone for the lecture โJesuits and Global Goods โ Commercial Routes from…
FR CYRIL LAW WAS GUEST SPEAKER OF A NEW CONFERENCE ON THE APOSTOLIC LETTER – Why China resisted Maximum Illud
– Marco Carvalho Ill-formulated, badly sustained and injurious to the interests of the Chinese Catholics. These were some of the remarks with which the apostolic letter Maximum Illud was received a century ago in China, in a process in which…