CN/24/027/2020 Chancery Notice Appointments Bishop Stephen LEE has made the following appointments, effective 1st September 2020: Mr. Chan Kei I ceases to be Supervisor of the St. Joseph Diocesan College (1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th School); Bishop Stephen Lee Bun…
Day: September 4, 2020

MUSIC AND THE BRAIN (3) – Brain for conductors
Aurelio Porfiri We already saw the many facets of brain involvement in our music-making. We did not think of it so much before we are faced with problems that are of course influenced by the functioning of our mind. We…

MISSIONARIES FROM MACAU TO THE WORLD – Saint Lazarus Island (14)
Joaquim Magalhães de Castro An anonymous chronicler, certainly a member of the expedition, says that on his first attempt to reach Cebu, Gonçalo Marramaque had lost himself in that rosary of islands and was forced to return to the Moluccas,…

Republican convention night three: God, country, and Notre Dame
(CNA) The third night of the 2020 Republican National Convention featured a Catholic religious sister and a Chinese human rights lawyer and activist endorsing President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign.

CATHOLIC LEADERS CONDEMN PHILIPPINE BOMBINGS AS ‘UNCONSCIONABLE’
(CNA) Catholics responded to twin bombings on an island in the Philippines Monday with prayers and calls for peace.

FIRST RUSSIAN CATHOLIC BISHOP APPOINTED SINCE FALL OF COMMUNISM
(Catholic Herald) Fr Nicolai Dubinin has become the first Russian to be appointed a Catholic bishop since the fall of communism. Last Thursday, Pope Francis appointed the 47-year-old Conventual Franciscan as auxiliary bishop for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Moscow…