【圖片說明】Image of St John Maria Vianney at the Se Cathedral Church in Macau – Miguel Augusto (*) This year, the liturgical feast of St John Mary Vianney, known as Cure d’Ars (‘Cure’ means ‘Parish Priest’), is celebrated on Sunday, the…
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IMAGINARY DIALOGUES – Agatha & Frederic (5)
– Carlos M. Frota Surprisingly, the conference room was packed with students, listening in absolute silence to what Professor Stevenson was saying. The subject was uncommon, almost alien, to the universe of students’ immediate interests: “Wisdom and memory , a…
DIGNITY AND RIGHTS OF THE HUMAN EMBRYO – Respect the dignity and rights of the embryo (2)
[照片說明] A six-week human embryo. – FAUSTO GOMEZ OP The word “person” is the name of dignity (“nomen dignitatis”). St Thomas Aquinas explains that the word “dignity” is reserved exclusively to the most excellent beings, namely, God, angels and humans:…
LUIGI ANTINORI – The forgotten Italian master
– Aurelio Porfiri The musical history of Macau is a largely unexplored field. In the last decades, some studies have started to bring to the attention of the musicological community some names, some places, some events. But still there is…
GREAT FIGURES OF THE MISSIONARY WORK – Bengal and the Kingdom of the Dragon (64)
– Joaquim Magalhães de Castro To a Portuguese, like Cacela, hearing about grapes certainly attracted his attention and although this fruit did not grow in Bhutan but in another place across the border, “in a town called Compo, which is…
NEWS BRIEFS
– Tej Francis MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA FIRST PERMIT ISSUED UNDER AUSTRALIAN STATE’S ASSISTED SUICIDE, EUTHANASIA LAW (CNA) The first permit for medically assisted death in Victoria was issued in recent weeks, less than a month after the Australian state’s legalization of…
CARDINAL FERNANDO FILONI – New seminary a “fruit of apostolic creativity and the desire to be a Church that goes forth”
Cardinal Fernando Filoni delivers the homily in the Mass he celebrated at the University of St Joseph during his visit to Macau in March of this year A new seminary directly depending on the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples…
ANTIQUES EXPERT MARINELLA VERONESI – Italy, 80% of art in the world is concentrated here, mostly religious art
– ROBAIRD O’CEARBHAILL Hong Kong Correspondent Italy shares with China top spot for UNESCO World Heritage Sites’ longest list at 55. In 2005 Macau’s historic center was chronologically the 35th site in China. Item (1), of the cultural criteria, for…
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE AND RELIGIOUS STUDIES ROUND TABLE – The Sacred and the Everyday
The Faculty of Religious Studies of the University of Saint Joseph (USJ) was joined by the Renmin University of China’s School of Liberal Arts in hosting the Comparative Literature and Religious Studies round table of the XXII Congress of the…
MACAU CHURCH HERITAGE – The Guia Chapel
– Maria Sheli Kwak Situated at the highest point in Macau, the Capelinha de Nossa Senhora das Neves (Guia Chapel) stands inside the Fortaleza da Guia (Guia Fortress). Popularly known as Guia Chapel derived from the fortress and the lighthouse…