Corrado Gnerre Dear ones, I would like to ask you a question. Not so long ago news spread in China, that it would be possible to clone two monkeys. The news obviously caused quite a stir. And it disturbed me…
Month: September 2020
MISSIONARIES FROM MACAU TO THE WORLD – St Lazarus Island (17)
Joaquim Magalhães de Castro The Portuguese were, at the time, lords of the seas, and their pilots, masters and captains, in addition to a place in the armed forces of the kingdom, also competed for a place among their Spanish…
Knights of Columbus Founder to be beatified
Fr Leonard Dollentas Father Michael McGivney, founder of the Knights of Columbus, will soon be declared blessed, a step prior to sainthood. Father Michael McGivney was not only a remarkable founder but an exemplary pastor, a simple American parish priest…
PENNSYLVANIA BISHOP TELLS CATHOLICS: VOTE WITH LIFE ‘UPPERMOST IN MIND’
(CNA) Defence of innocent human life should be “uppermost” in the mind of Catholic voters at election time, the bishop of Allentown, Pennsylvania, has told Catholics in his diocese. In a letter issued Sept. 9 on voting in the upcoming…
CUBA’S MONASTERY REOPENS AFTER 125 YEARS
(Aleteia) The Friars of the Order of Our Lady of Mercy (Mercedarios) in Havana, Cuba, are struggling with poverty and the aftermath of last year’s hurricane.
EL PASO CATHEDRAL VANDAL CHARGED WITH CRIMINAL MISCHIEF
(CNA) A man has been charged after he decapitated a statue of Christ in El Paso, while the NYPD is looking for a man who threw a statue of Our Lady of Guadalupe into the sidewalk outside a church in…
TREASURES OF SACRED MUSIC – Ecce Panis Angelorum (Lorenzo Perosi)
Aurelio Porfiri When we hear talk about sacred music, we are often reproached that we cannot expect today’s churches, mostly empty of faithful, to have the means to put on a sacred music program the way we believe it should…
Covid-19 and our fears
Fausto Gomez OP Due to the novel coronavirus there is global fear: through 2019, a heightened degree of fear has spread throughout the world: fear of infection, fear of death, fear of losing one’s job, fear of hunger.
You did what? (3)
Danilo Perez Ngo SFC: What advice can you give to people who still have questions about confession, if Christ is really present in the confessional? Fr Mandía: This is a matter of faith, in the sense that if you believe…
USJ fetes 372 students in 2020 Congregation
The University of Saint Joseph (USJ) held its 2020 Congregation on Saturday, September 12th, at the Grand Hall of the Macau Tower, with a total of 372 students graduating this year.