– ROBAIRD O’CEARBHAILL The pandemic is wrecking economies and lives but those who suffer most are the vulnerable old and young, the already ill and especially the extreme poor. All whom Christians are duty-bound to help. A core part of…
Year: 2020
COVID – 19: Vatican and UN – natural allies
– Carlos M. Frota The UN and the Holy See, natural allies? Not in a conventional battlefield, but in struggling for a better new world, after the pandemic. Some weeks ago, Antonio Guterres and Pope Francis appeared smiling in photos…
GREAT FIGURES OF THE MISSIONARY WORK – Bengal and the Kingdom of the Dragon (99)
– Joaquim Magalhães de Castro If it is true that in the rivers and along the coast, the Mughals always failed against the Arrakanese, it should be borne in mind that the potential of the former – with an army…
NEWS BRIEFS
– Tej Francis Email: tejfrancis@gmail.com CHINA CHINESE GOVERNMENT RESUMES REMOVAL OF CROSSES FROM CHURCH BUILDINGS (CNA) As the Chinese government makes progress containing the COVID-19 pandemic, authorities have resumed action to remove crosses from buildings and crackdown on religious practice.
CHANCERY NOTICE
CN/17/019/2020 Bishop Stephen LEE Bun Sang has authorised the release of the following personnel announcement: Fr. Andrew Virtuz de Vera, of the Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity (SOLT), is no longer associated with the Diocesan Catholic…
H.E. BISHOP STEPHEN LEE’S SPECIAL MESSAGE ON THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC – We cannot turn our eyes away from the pain of many
Dear brothers and sisters, In the month of May, Macau is happily moving towards a full recovery. At the same time, we clearly know that the Novel Coronavirus has had a far-reaching impact on the world. At least 200,000 families…
JOSEPH KAM KAI-MAN, RESEARCHER AT THE STANLEY HO CENTRE FOR EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES – We will have to change our mode of living
– Marco Carvalho Without an effective vaccine or antiviral drugs that can lighten the impact of SARS-CoV-2, the current pandemic might go on for another two or three years, Joseph Kam Kai-man claims. A Catholic, and specialist in clinical microbiology,…
POPE AT MASS PRAYS FOR DOCTORS AND PRIEST LAYING DOWN THIER LIVES
– Tej Francis Email: tejfrancis@gmail.com (Vatican News) In praying for doctors and priests during Mass on Sunday at the Casa Santa Marta, Pope Francis likened them to the Good Shepherd laying down their lives serving the flock.
ANIMALISM: Denying the value of reason…reasoning
– Corrado Gnerre I happened to read something by the philosopher Peter Singer. He suggests that a healthy animal would have more right to life than a sick child. How did it get this far? Dear …, Australian Peter Singer…
BITE-SIZE THEOLOGY (78) – How is the Church related to the Blessed Trinity?
– Rev José Mario O Mandía The Church is the People of God, the Mystical Body of Christ, the Spouse of Christ, and the Temple of the Holy Spirit. PEOPLE OF GOD “The Church is the ‘people of God’ because…