Robaird O’CearbhaillHong Kong Correspondent The 1000 year Catholic Order of Malta is designed to, and has been functioning since the beginning, to help the poor and sick in violent conflicts, natural emergencies and in poverty. It is one of the…
Year: 2021
“Irish Miracle”
Robaird O’CearbhaillHong Kong correspondent Medieval Irish missionaries saved European civilization and education, restoring and widely evangelizing Catholicism for centuries.
MISSIONARIES FROM MACAU TO THE WORLD – Saint Lazarus Island (50)
Joaquim Magalhães de Castro Francisco Gali, captain of the ship San Juan, took along Alonso Gomez as a pilot and, among his crew, several Portuguese sailors. After getting together, on the high seas, with another ship named San Martin, San…
CARDINAL GEORGE PELL TURNS 80, LOSES RIGHT TO VOTE IN PAPAL CONCLAVE
(Catholic News Agency) Cardinal George Pell turned 80 years old on Tuesday, losing his eligibility to vote in a future papal conclave.
SR. MARIA LAURA MAINETTI: NUN STABBED TO DEATH BY THREE TEENAGE GIRLS IS BEATIFIED
(Catholic News Agency) An Italian nun who was stabbed to death by three teenage girls was beatified on Sunday, after Pope Francis declared her a martyr, killed “in hatred of the faith.”
HOW A ‘CULTURE OF CONVERSION’ TRANSFORMED A CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL
(Catholic News Agency) An all-boys Catholic high school in Tampa, Florida is attracting attention for fostering a faith-filled environment that helped lead nearly two dozen of its students into the Church last month.
FORGIVING IS GOOD FOR THE HEART AND MIND – Cardinal Pell after a year in prison
Fr Leonard E Dollentas In 2019 the world saw Australian Cardinal George Pell in the headlines after the Melbourne County Court found him guilty of sexually abusing two choir boys and was sentenced to six years in prison.
Macau celebrates the Feast of St Anthony
António dos Santos On the 13th of June of each year, the Universal Church commemorates St Anthony of Lisbon, also known as St Anthony of Padua, where he preached and from where he journeyed to eternity. In Macau, as in…
FATHER ABYIOT DESALEGN, PARISH PRIEST IN ITANG, ETHIOPIA – Empowering women to provide for their families
Marco Carvalho Five hundred years since it first enticed Europe, the mythical kingdom of Prester John remains deeply religious and deeply devout, and faith – whatever the rite or denomination – is still for many a undeniable sign of identity.…
BITE-SIZE THEOLOGY (132) – What’s the right way of receiving Communion?
Rev José Mario O Mandíajmom.honlam.org Saint Augustine once taught: “Christ held Himself in His hands when He gave His Body to His disciples saying: ‘This is My Body.’ No one partakes of this Flesh before he has adored it. We…