(Independent Catholic News) Eight deacons of the archdiocese of Beijing were ordained to the priesthood on September 21st, the feast of the Apostle St Matthew. The ceremony was presided over by the bishop of the capital, Mgr. Giuseppe Li Shan,…
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JUDGE KILLED BY MAFIA 30 YEARS AGO IS A CANDIDATE FOR SAINTHOOD
(CNA) Thirty years ago Judge Rosario Livatino was brutally killed by the mafia on his commute to work at a courthouse in Sicily. Today he is recognized in the Catholic Church as a Servant of God and a candidate for…
A Q&A on the Macau Catholic Culture Association
Can you describe the works of ACCM? The Macau Catholic Culture Association is a non-profit organization established in July 2018. The chairman is Bishop Stephen Lee, the Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Macau. Catholicism has been in Macau for…
PEÑAFRANCIA FESTIVAL 2020
PEÑAFRANCIA FESTIVAL 2020“Fostering Dialogue and Harmony in the Spirit of Mary’s Gentleness and Humility.” Ross Belle Balatbat Every year, the feast of Our Lady of Peñafrancia in the Philippines draws millions of devotees and pilgrims, but this year the traditional…
HEAD OF DEPARTMENT OF SAINT PAUL SCHOOL – “Distance learning is a solution”
Marco Carvalho In 2012, long before the current pandemic paralyzed the world, Saint Paul School did something that no other educational institution in Macau dared to do until then: it gave up on notebooks and school manuals, got rid of…
You did what? (4)
Danilo Perez Ngo SFC: You were saying about the frequency of confession. Before the pandemic, I was in a habit of going weekly. Is there a specific recommendation of how many times we go? Is there such a thing?
USJ appoints new Vice-Rector, Professor Shu Guang Zhang
The University of Saint Joseph has announced the appointment of Professor Shu Guang Zhang as Vice Rector for External Relations and Institutional Development and Full Professor of Global Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. Until August of this…
MACAU CHURCH HERITAGE – At the Seminary of St Joseph
Maria Kwak* The purpose of heritage interpretation is to provide a meaning to the community which has generated it. The Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy highlights the community value of the Church’s cultural heritage. It denominates cultural treasures as the…
BITE-SIZE THEOLOGY (97) – What rights and duties do Catholics have in social life?
Rev José Mario O Mandíajmom.honlam.org RIGHT AND DUTY Society has to recognize the right and obligation of Catholics to act in the political arena in accordance with their faith. If politics respects the dignity of persons, it does not mean…
From abuse of religion to abuse of freedom
Carlos M. Frota One of the negative characteristics of our times – inherited from an inglorious past – is the persistence of religious hatred, proving that we didn’t accept even today, despite all our progress, different visions of the world,…