The pandemic has brought changes to many lives – young and old from all walks of life. In order to strengthen friendship and camaraderie and to foster personal development and to strengthen the Faith, the Commission on Family & Life…
Year: 2021
Soccer and Catholicism
Aurelio Porfiri I imagine that millions of people have remained glued to the television to follow the victory of the Italian national team at the European football championships that ended a few days ago. A painful victory that crowned an…
POPE: “We need to develop an “ecology of the heart”
(Vatican News) After a two-week absence, Pope Francis appeared once again at the window of the Apostolic Palace overlooking Saint Peter’s Square for the noontime Sunday Angelus. A week ago he led the Angelus prayer from Rome’s Gemelli Hospital, greeting…
WHO IS THE NUN WHO WILL BE BEATIFIED WITH CARDINAL WYSZYNSKI, POLAND’S ‘PRIMATE OF THE MILLENNIUM’?
(CNA) Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński, a giant of 20th-century Catholicism, will be beatified on Sept. 12.
The Miracle of Sharing
25 July 2021 – 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year BJohn 6:1-15 The Miracle of Sharing Fr. Jijo Kandamkulathy CMFClaretian Publications, Macau The events leading to the solemn proclamation of Jesus that He is the bread of life begin…
AMID CATHOLIC OPPOSITION, STATES ARE LEGALIZING COMPOSTING OF HUMAN REMAINS
(NCR Online) Washington, Colorado and Oregon are now among the U.S. states that have legalized the process of converting human bodies into soil, a procedure the Catholic Church said fails to show “respect for the body of the deceased.” Meanwhile,…
BITE-SIZE THEOLOGY (137) – How should each faithful participate at Mass?
Rev José Mario O Mandíajmom.honlam.org The Holy Mass is an action of Christ where He offers Himself: He is both Priest and Victim; He is both Offerer and the one Offered. The Church (which is Christ’s Mystical Body) and everyone…
Christianity it is not only an “experience”
Corrado Gnerre Dear friends, I am a university student. I have recently approached the Faith, thanks to some friends who are part of a fairly famous ecclesial movement. However, there is something that does not convince me of what they…
Empowering Prayer and Immersing Work
Fr. Jijo Kandamkulathy CMFClaretian Publications, Macau 18 July 2021 – 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year BMark 6:30-34 The gospel we read today is the continuation of the passage we heard last Sunday where the twelve apostles were sent…
Crucial native ecology knowledge – care of the planet
Robaird O’CearbhaillHong Kong Correspondent The second title of Pope Francis’ encyclical, Laudato si’, is On Care for Our Common Home. As “St Francis of Assisi reminds us that our common home is like a sister….our sister, Mother Earth, who sustains…