(National Catholic Register) Thirty-three years after Venerable Henriette DeLille’s cause was opened, an alleged miracle is now in the hands of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints at the Vatican, putting this holy heroine of New Orleans close to…
Fr Leonard E Dollentas When Jesuit Fr Stephen Chow Sau-yan received his appointment as the new bishop of Hong Kong, he was shocked, and initially, he refused. Like Fr Chow, most bishops appointed are caught by surprise when chosen because…
Marco Carvalho China has decided on Monday to increase the limit of children per couple from two to three, an announcement that aims to halt the demographic free fall the world’s most populous nation has been experiencing. The measure rectifies…
Ross Belle Santos-Balatbat When I was seven, my mother taught me how to pray the rosary and I was motivated as I witnessed her and my aunt praying at least seven sets in a day. As a young child, I…
Ross Belle Santos Balatbat The Pahiyas festival is a tradition that originated in Lucban, Quezon in the Philippines to thank God for the bountiful harvest and honor the patron saint of farmers, Saint Isidore the Farmer and Saint Maria Toribia,…
Fr Leonard Dollentas Flores de Mayo (“Flowers of May”) is a traditional celebration for Filipinos in the month of May. A Filipino in Macau who hails from Cebu recalls: “Decades ago, when I was still a boy, I remember that…
Corrado Gnerre I really appreciate your magazine. For a very simple reason, because you know how to combine Faith and Beauty well. In this regard, I would like you to relate to me about how medieval people loved Beauty. When…
Fr. Jijo Kandamkulathy CMFClaretian Publications, Macau 30 May 2021 – Solemnity of the Holy Trinity-Year BMt 28:16-20 Trinity Sunday is a time that the Church has dedicated to the reflection of our concept about God. Trinity is the summit of…
(Vatican News) Pope Francis, during the Angelus from St Peter’s Square recalled the feast of the Most Holy Trinity this Sunday, describing it as an immense mystery which “exceeds the capacity of our mind, but which speaks to our heart,…
Aurelio Porfiri I do not know if you have in mind those beautiful verses of Psalm 8: “If I look at your sky, the work of your fingers, at the moon and the stars that you have set in place,…