Featured Image: Darwin Ramos in 2010, two years before his death. – Fr Leonard E Dollentas On March 29, 2019, the Vatican declared a Filipino teenager, Darwin Ramos, “Servant of God.” The declaration, which was made by the Prefect of…
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FAITH IN THE SERVICE OF THE NEEDY – Catholic” means “all-embracing
Robaird O’Cearbhaill Hong Kong Correspondent In East Asia most children die of preventable diseases, for example diarrhoea and pneumonia, 63% before 5 years old, from unhygienic surroundings, and largely, because they don’t have soap. That’s where Soap Cycling comes in, making soap available free.…
CHURCH FATHERS (58) – Gennadius Of Massilia
Anastasios The 5th century was a time of struggles, even if Christianity became free (together with other religions) the century before. We have also in this time great men and women who fight to build the Lord’s Kingdom here on…
ASK THE LITURGIST (27) – Let us talk again of the seat
Enrico Finotti How can you sit at the seat worthily? It is necessary to start from the principle that sitting at the seat is not simply a functional act of pause or rest, but a liturgical act of representation in…
BITE-SIZE THEOLOGY (34) – If God is unchanging, what is the use of praying to him?
Rev José Mario O Mandía We have seen that God is eternal because he does not change, and hence, is not subject to time. But a new question arises. If his being does not change, neither will his thoughts change.…
HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF THE INDEPENDENCE OF PORTUGAL – O Clarim honored in Lisbon
On 23 May, Thursday, at 6:00 PM, the Historical Society of the Independence of Portugal (SHIP) handed a diploma to O Clarim for its “unequivocal and praiseworthy work … in the dissemination of the Portuguese Language and Culture in Macau”…
TRUE LOVE FOR GOD EXPRESSED THROUGH OBEDIENCE TO HIS WILL – 26th May 2019, 6th Sunday In Easter
Acts 15:1-2; 22-29, Rev 21:10-14; 22-23, Jn 14:23-29 May Tam Today’s Gospel Reading is part of Jesus’ Last Discourse (Chapter 14 to 17). Earlier Jesus had given His disciples a farewell gift: a new commandment of brotherly love (Jn 13:34).…
HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF MAXIMUM ILLUD – João Eleutério addresses its contribution to catholicity of the Church
PHOTO CAPTION: Pope Benedict XV (1914-1922) Benedict XV revitalized missionary activities after World War I. He has been referred to as the “Pope of Missions.” Benedict XV was devoted to the Blessed Virgin Mary and authorized the Feast of Mary,…
MARY’S VISIT – Incarnation, heart of the world
Aurelio Porfiri In a small church near where I live in Rome, a church with origins in the Middle Ages, there is a painting in front of which I often linger. In this painting by an eighteenth-century author, there is…
ST JOAN OF ARC – Patroness of soldiers and of France
On January 6, 1412, Joan of Arc was born to pious parents of the French peasant class in the obscure village of Domremy, near the province of Lorraine. At a very early age, she was said to have heard the…