Vítor Teixeira – Marco Carvalho It is not exactly a novelty elsewhere, but in Macau it stands out as an unprecedented case. A former inmate of Coloane prison is currently attending the Social Work course at the University of Saint…
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FAITH ILLUSTRATED – Life in Christ, We are called to happiness (20)
OLD LAW AND NEW LAW
IERUSALEM, SURGE – Music by Aurelio Porfiri
Liturgical Mass Sheet
THERE IS NO LOVE WITHOUT TRUTH
– Corrado Gnerre In his last encyclical, Caritas in veritate, Benedict XVI insists that charity must always start from the truth and that even charity without truth cannot exist. What do you think about it? I agree, but someone has…
BITE-SIZE THEOLOGY (56) – How can we profit from evil?
– Rev José Mario O. Mandía Evil is a reality that we need to learn to face, to accept, and to sanctify. Learning to do this is, in fact, a lifetime task. Many spend their lives complaining about evil, or…
COURAGE, LIFT UP YOUR HEAD! – 17th November 2019, 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time, C
Luke 21:5-19 – Fr. Fernando Armellini SCJ Claretian Publications, Macau Luke wrote his Gospel around the year 85 AD. In the fifty years that passed since the death and resurrection of Jesus, there were wars, political revolutions, catastrophes and the…
FROM THE BOOK OF PSALMS TO THE RESPONSORIAL PSALM (1) – The Book Of Psalms: an introduction
– Aurelio Porfiri There is no Christian who is not familiar with the Book of Psalms: these 150 poems are the base for our way of praying. And for us Catholics, the liturgy is filled with texts taken from the…
GREAT FIGURES OF THE MISSIONARY WORK – Bengal and the Kingdom of the Dragon (77)
– Joaquim Magalhães de Castro As we have already said, the attempt to convert the Bhutanese was unsuccessful, and Fathers João Cabral and Estevao Cacela must have felt very frustrated, because they had labored a great deal. Only centuries later,…
SAINT PETER – The triumph of Catholic faith
PHOTO: Wikimedia – Anastasios As was said previously, we may regard Saint Peter’s Basilica as the most famous Catholic church in the world. It is one of the four so called “major Basilicas,” all of them in Rome. There is…
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH DANIEL DE WEYER, CEO AND FOUNDER OF CRYPTOWORLD LIMITED HONG KONG – My character was formed in childhood, along with the Ten Commandments
– ROBAIRD O’CEARBHAILL With decades of senior executive experience in international banking, now in fintech, crypto, investment and board governance, Daniel De Weyer, believes in reflection and positivity. His Catholic childhood largely made him what he is today, and what…