Candidates for baptism this coming Easter from all the Macau parishes gathered in the Cathedral on Sunday for the second scrutinies, presided by H.E. Bishop Stephen Lee. The scrutinies is part of the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults, the…
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REVEREND STEPHEN MORGAN – Maximum Illud recognized that the Church is always in the world but not of it
– Marco Carvalho One hundred years ago, the Church’s approach to the world changed forever. World War I and its aftermath not only forced an adjustment of the map of Europe, but also erased the last manifestations of temporal power…
A TALE OF TWO BROTHERS – 31st March 2019, Fourth Sunday Of Lent
Jos 5:9a, 10-12, 2 Cor 5:17-21, Lk 15:1-3, 11-32 – Edmond Lo Let’s get to the heart of the matter. What’s wrong with the older son’s reaction to his father’s joyous celebration of the younger son’s repentance and homecoming…
LIGNUM CRUCIS – THE RELIC OF THE TRUE WOODEN CROSS OF JESUS CHRIST – Crucem tuam adoramus, Domine!
Bishop Stephen Lee carries the Lignum Crucis contained in a reliquary during the procession of Our Lord Bom Jesus dos Passos on March 10. – Miguel Augusto (*) The Cross on which Our Lord was crucified became one of…
BITE-SIZE THEOLOGY (25) – What are mysteries? Why dogmas?
– Rev José Mario O Mandía We often talk about mysteries and dogmas. What do we mean by “mystery”? And what do we mean by “dogma”? Let’s take up mysteries first. In ordinary language, a mystery is something that…
PIERCED AND CAGED – St Mark, Bishop and Confessor
St Mark was a priest in Syria during the reign of Constantine. He became the Bishop of Arethusa. There were many conversions to Christianity during this time. Mark undertook the challenge of transforming pagan temples into Christian churches. He suffered…
ORGAN TRANSPLANT AND DONATION (3) – Sale of organs
– FAUSTO GOMEZ OP One person may be a cadaver donor or a living donor of a bodily organ, of a kidney. One person can be a vendor of his organs, too. There is an international trade of organ trafficking…
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH FATHER JAMES JACKSON – Around the extraordinary form
– Aurelio Porfiri Part of the most precious heritage of our Catholic tradition, a living heritage, is the Tridentine Mass, which, after the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum, is now called the extraordinary form of the Roman rite. There are some…
CATHOLIC SCHOOLS AT THE SERVICE OF SOCIETY (V)
– Fr Leonard E Dollentas Last year in September Dr Astrid S. Tuminez, a Filipina was named as the 7th president of Utah Valley University (UVU), Utah’s largest public university. She is the first ever female to hold such post.…
CHURCH FATHERS (49) – Julius Firmicus Maternus
– Anastasios With Julius Firmicus Maternus we are dealing with a very interesting thinker, born in Sicily in the 4th century. According to the very scarce information we have about him, we may say that he was a man of…