– Marco Carvalho The Faculty of Religious Studies of the University of Saint Joseph (USJ) launched, at the beginning of the current academic year, a new training program destined to the teachers of Religious Education that work in Macau’s secondary…
Month: February 2020
COVID-19. SUNDAY MASS TO BE CELEBRATED ONCE AGAIN BEHIND CLOSED DOORS – Behind the Screen: How Macau’s Catholics are keeping their faith alive
– Marco Carvalho A “somewhat strange feeling.” This is how Father Daniel Ribeiro defines the experience he had last Sunday, when he celebrated the Sunday Eucharist before an empty temple. Despite the strangeness, the Brazilian priest considers that the option…
NEW FORMS OF SOLIDARITY – Pope urges global finance leaders to reduce economic inequality
– Tej Francis Email: tejfrancis@gmail.com (Vatican News) Pope Francis is calling on the architects of the global financial system to reduce rising income inequality by prioritizing the needs of the poor who are left behind by the globalization of indifference.
JOSEPH STA MARIA, MALACCA PORTUGUESE COMMUNITY ACTIVIST – My ancestors and my community are the custodians of Catholic faith in Malaysia
Joseph Sta Maria – Photo by Marco Carvalho – Marco Carvalho Promotor of the the Luso-Asian Communities Conference, Joseph Sta Maria became, over the past few years, a respected representative of the community of Portuguese-descendants of Malaysia. The “Portuguese of…
ADORAMUS TE CHRISTE – Music by Aurelio Porfiri
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SANT’EUGENIO – From the heart of Pope Pacelli
– Anastasios There was a Pope in the past century who experienced great troubles during his Pontificate, at the time of the Second Worl’s War; this Pope was Pius XII, Eugenio Pacelli (1876-1958). On the occasion of the 25th anniversary…
BITE-SIZE THEOLOGY (66) – What’s so special about the Mother of Jesus?
– Rev José Mario O Mandía God’s rescue plan involved not only Jesus Christ. There was another important character that God foretold when He announced His plan. In Genesis 3:15, we read about the Woman, Mother of the Redeemer, who…
BITE-SIZE THEOLOGY (66) – What’s so special about the Mother of Jesus?
– Rev José Mario O Mandía God’s rescue plan involved not only Jesus Christ. There was another important character that God foretold when He announced His plan. In Genesis 3:15, we read about the Woman, Mother of the Redeemer, who…
THE CHURCH CHRIST FOUNDED – Christianity from A.D. 600 – 1050
– Joni Cheng The proof from A.D. 600 – 1050 is often called “the rise of Christendom,” a union of church and state, that was attributed most powerfully and most correctly to Charlemagne or Charles the Great, the Frankish king…