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Year: 2021
Catholic author of best book of the 20th century
ROBAIRD O’CEARBHAILLHong Kong Correspondent J.R.R. Tolkien was one of the most famous authors of the 20th century. His book, Lord of the Rings, sold 50 million copies. Encyclopedia Britannica stated that it was voted as the best book of the…
MISSIONARIES FROM MACAU TO THE WORLD – Saint Lazarus Island (52)
Joaquim Magalhães de Castro Throughout the 16th century, several plans were drawn up, each one more eccentric than the other, to invade the Middle Kingdom, megalomaniac and unrealistic plans that had among their most enthusiastic defenders several Dominicans and Spanish…
CHURCH CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE AS MYANMAR FIGHTING ESCALATES
(Angelus News) Attacks on churches and arrests of clergy in Myanmar are becoming increasingly common as the Catholic Church is being targeted for its alleged opposition to the ruling military junta.
THE IRISH LEGACY (3) – Saving Western civilization
Robaird O’CearbhaillHong Kong Correspondent From the 6th century AD until the 12th century, Irish monks’ missions were a dedicated and skilled educative force that evangelized the Germanic nomadic tribes that invaded Western Europe and destroyed much of the old Roman…
WHY WAS SPIDER-MAN AT POPE FRANCIS’ GENERAL AUDIENCE?
(Catholic News Agency) People attending Pope Francis’ weekly audience on Wednesday, and those following via livestream, were surprised to see sitting among the crowd a man dressed head-to-toe in tight red and blue garb decorated with a silver web.
ITER EUROPAEUM – Follow the walkway of European churches in Rome
In celebrating the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the European Union and the Holy See, the European Union hosted the Iter Europaeum project in Rome from 9 May to 27 June. It is a pilgrimage and a walkway where…
A LISTENING SHEPHERD TO THE FLOCK – New Manila archbishop installed June 24
Fr Leonard E Dollentas After being vacant for more than a year, the Archdiocese of Manila finally has its Archbishop. On June 24, 2021, the solemnity of the Birth of St John the Baptist, Cardinal Jose Advincula of Capiz was officially…
AS NEWLY ARRIVED IMMIGRANTS MOVE BEYOND US-MEXICO BORDER, SISTERS ARE THERE TO HELP
(Global Sisters Report) Notre Dame de Namur Sr. Mary Alice McCabe welcomes an Angolan father and son to the Humanitarian Respite Center in McAllen, Texas, in January 2020. (Courtesy of Mary Alice McCabe)
TAMMY CHIO, SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE DIOCESAN PASTORAL YOUTH CENTER – “We hope children can learn to care about the others”
Marco Carvalho Dance and drawing lessons, cooking sessions, language classes and much, much more. The Diocesan Pastoral Youth Center will answer once again the needs of dozens of local families, by promoting in July and August a broad program of…