PHOTO: Sagrada Familia (Barcelona) – Rev José Mario O Mandía The five ways of Saint Thomas conclude respectively as follows: (1) First Way: Unmoved Mover and Pure Act (2) Second Way: the First Efficient Cause (3) Third Way: the Necessarily…
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THE ONE WHO SERVES IS MORE WORTHY – 23 September 2018, 25th Sunday In Ordinary Time (B)
WIS 2:12,17-20; JAS 3:16 – 4:3; MK 9:30-37 – Fernando Armellini SCJ Claretian Publications, Macau Right in the beginning of today’s gospel we are faced with the question: “He is about to be delivered,” by whom? The answer seems obvious:…
GREAT FIGURES OF THE MISSIONARY WORK – Bengal and the Kingdom of the Dragon (20)
– Joaquim Magalhães de Castro By the turn of the 17th century, numerous references to a Christian community of considerable size, certainly of “Firingi” origin, appeared in Rangamati on the banks of Brahmaputra. A text dating from 1682 and written…
TRUTH AND POST-TRUTH (2) – Knowing, saying and doing
PHOTO: Uroburos at Pixabay – FAUSTO GOMEZ OP A Christian philosopher writes: “Truth has too many preachers and few martyrs; hence our little credibility in the world” (Carlos Diaz). Proclaiming the truth in life – even up to martyrdom –…
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH FATHER ENRICO FINOTTI – Culmen et fons
– Aurelio Porfiri The name of Father Enrico Finotti may ring familiar for the readers of this magazine (at least those of the English edition). For some months, we have been offering the translation of one of his books about…
MARIAN APPARITIONS (82) – Vera Cruz, Mexico
When Hitler’s armies defeated the French and entered the city of Paris during the latter part of 1939, a young woman, Maria Hendizabal, fled from France to live in Mexico. Arriving at Vera Cruz, she went to the Mexican capital…
NEWS BRIEFS
– Tej Francis STRASBOURG, FRANCE MYSTIC AND RELIGIOUS FOUNDER MOTHER ALPHONSE MARIE BEATIFIED IN STRASBOURG, FRANCE (CNA) A personal encounter with Mother Alphonse Marie Eppinger inspired “conversions which were far more miraculous than the raising of the dead,” recounted her…
NOT JUST PEDOPHILES – Real scandal is clergy with no faith in God
– Michele Brambilla The true scandal of the Church is not the pedophile priests (which remain the zero point), but the priests who have stopped believing in God (much more numerous).
PREPARING FOR THE FEAST OF ST FRANCIS – Message to our friends
As is usual, as we approach the Feast of St Francis of Assisi (4 October), the Franciscan Missionary Sisters of Our Lady offer to the readers of this magazine a reflection on some excerpts related to his life. We remember…
LETTER FROM BISHOP STEPHEN LEE OF MACAU ON TYPHOON MANKHUT
BM/156/2018 Dear Brothers and Sisters in the Lord, After super-typhoon Mankhut swept through Macau and gradually moved away, on September 16 (24th Sunday in Ordinary Time) many areas of the city were flooded, with the water in low-lying areas exceeding…