Marco Carvalho Since the first patient with Covid-19 was detected in Macau in the dying days of January, Caritas spent more than 200,000 patacas lending a helping hand to support more than six hundred non-resident workers who had lost their…
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CDSJ 2 Students make their own Rosary beads
Having school children make their own Rosary beads can be fun. This was the wonderful experience of the students at CDSJ 2, the English section of Colégio Diocesano de São José.
SELECTED STUDENTS GRANTED SCHOLARSHIPS OFFERED BY SINO-PERUVIAN BUSINESSMAN – USJ signs direct progression agreements with three Catholic schools
Marco Carvalho The University of Saint Joseph (USJ), Saint Paul School and two of the units of St Joseph Diocesan College have recently signed direct progression agreements. The new mechanism provides some of the three secondary school graduates with the…
POPE AT MASS ON WORLD DAY OF POOR – ‘The poor guarantee us eternal income’
(Vatican News) The World Day of the Poor was instituted in 2016 by Pope Francis and is celebrated annually on the 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time.
PASTORAL CARE FOR FILIPINO MIGRANTS’ COMMISSION ON SOCIAL ACTION – Center continues assisting displaced workers
Danilo Perez Ngo The outreach program of the Commission on Social Action of the Pastoral Center for Filipino Migrants located at Francisco Antonio St. No. 48-58, Macau continues to distribute supplies of grocery items to migrant workers who have permanently…
BITE-SIZE THEOLOGY (104) – Is hell a scare tactic?
Rev José Mario O Mandíajmom.honlam.org Is hell for real? Should we still believe in it? Yes. As long as a man is free, hell is a possibility. But if we are to understand what hell is, we need to understand…
FORMED BY RELIGIOUS ROOTS AND TRAGEDY – “Catholic social doctrine taught me that faith without works is dead”
Robaird O’CearbhaillHong Kong Correspondent Joe Biden recovered from terrible family tragedies twice. Only days into being elected into the US Senate, his wife and daughter were killed and sons seriously injured. While in Washington setting up his office his family…
MONEY AND RELIGION
Aurelio Porfiri In recent months, I published a book that I co-wrote with Professor Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, a banker and economist and former president of the IOR (Istituto per le Opere di Religione), what is commonly known as the “Vatican…
Cowardice Misconceived as Prudence
15 November 2020 – 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year AMathew 25:14-30 Fernando Armellini SCJClaretian Publications, Macau The talents do not indicate the qualities that every man has received from God. Verse 15 where the talents are delivered “to…
Nice: martyrs of a new era
Carlos M. Frota Hatred is never the answer! Dialogue is always possible, mutual understanding the only way forward. And the real challenge for political and religious leaders alike is how to insist more and more on a message of fraternity…