– Ross Belle Santos-Balatbat For we are buried together with him by baptism into death: that, as Christ is risen from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we also may walk in newness of life. For if…
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SAN LORENZO IN DAMASO – The great work of Pope Damasus
– Anastasios The church of San Lorenzo in Damaso is another very ancient church in Rome. Of course, this does not come as a piece of big news for this city, because we are aware that Christianity was present in…
HOMILY OF HIS HOLINESS POPE DURING THE EASTER VIGIL ON 11 APRIL 2020 – He walks ahead of us in life and in death
“After the Sabbath” (Mt 28:1), the women went to the tomb. This is how the Gospel of this holy Vigil began: with the Sabbath. It is the day of the Easter Triduum that we tend to neglect as we eagerly await…
THE LIGHT AT END OF THE TUNNEL
– Aurelio Porfiri We are all aware that our lives are not completely in our hands. We need to face certain facts that we don’t often consider, like diseases and unforeseen events that threaten our existence and so on. Because…
GREAT FIGURES OF THE MISSIONARY WORK – Bengal and the Kingdom of the Dragon (96)
– Joaquim Magalhães de Castro The English liberal politician – also a lawyer, journalist, historian and writer – Ewan Cotton, in his work Calcutta: Old and New, The Century in India 1800–1900, published for the first time in 1909 and…
NEWS BRIEFS
– Tej Francis tejfrancis@gmail.com Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Saudi governor turns to the Mother of Jesus to overcome the coronavirus (Asia News) In the middle of the emergency caused by the novel coronavirus pandemic, “numerous success stories” have been recorded, linked…
LOVELYN PADERNAL, OFW AND CHARITY VOLUNTEER – God has big dreams for us
– Robaird O’Cearbhaill Hong Kong Correspondent Lovelyn Padernal is an inspiring Catholic. God is her “first priority” and “in the center” in all her decisions, second is her family: “important to me…
CHANCERY NOTICE
CN/14/014/2020 The Diocese will continue the current arrangements of streaming Sunday Mass live online and on television, with distribution of Holy Communion at appropriate places of parish churches after the live online/televised Sunday Mass broadcasts until further notice. Faithful who…
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN THE FACE OF COVID-19 (1) – Jinde Charities, helping hand of the Church in China
– Fr Leonard Dollentas Our Seminary cook was devastated one morning, and declared that in their group chat one member posed a question for Catholics: When catastrophes or epidemics cause havoc on people, where is the Catholic Church? What has…
PATHORN SRIKARANONDA DE SEQUEIRA, MUSICIAN AND LECTURER AT RANGSIT UNIVERSITY – The Church has a strong mark in Thailand, especially in education
– Marco Carvalho Thailand’s small Catholic community is nowadays perfectly integrated, but it has not always been so. Pathorn de Sequeira’s great uncle was forced to renounce his Catholic faith and to convert to Buddhism, a victim of a dark…