Pedro Daniel Oliveira A team of 60 gaming operator Melco Resorts volunteers, consisting of adults and children, dedicated time last Sunday to the senior citizens of the Pou Tai Integrated Service Center for the Elderly, for an afternoon of games…
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BOUND TO COOPERATION – Gelmac and Scout Association of Hong Kong
Photo by GELMAC Pedro Daniel Oliveira Also known as GELMac, the local Catholic “Grupo de Escuteiros Lusófonos de Macau“ (Lusophone Scouts Group of Macau) traveled on May 11-12 to Hong Kong, as part of a joint activity with the Scout…
A PILGRIM’S NOTES – “Rejoice and be glad”, Holiness made easy
Featured Image: Photo by Yingchou Han on Unsplash Fausto Gomez OP A close friend of mine, a lay person called me up some days ago to tell me joyfully: “I understood it well!” He was referring to the new Apostolic Exhortation…
APOLOGIA (18) – Does God have a will?
FEATURED IMAGE: Guilherme Stecanella at Unsplash Anastasios Objection 1: When we talk of a will, we know that this will has an end in something, in some kind of “good.” But we cannot assign to God any end, so God has…
BITE-SIZE PHILOSOPHY (63) – Human life: is there an instruction manual?
FEATURED IMAGE: PublicDomainPictures at Pixabay Rev José Mario O Mandía All human beings with the use of reason are capable of knowing natural law and its demands. Moreover, for those who have accepted the faith preached by Jesus Christ, there…
WHERE EXACTLY DID JESUS’ ASCENSION TAKE PLACE? -13 May 2018 – Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord
Acts 1:1-11, Eph 4:1-13, Mk 16:15-20 Edmond Lo According to today’s Gospel, Mark, it was in Galilee (Mk 16:7). Matthew also located the event in Galilee (Mt. 28:7, 16). Luke? Contrary to the Marcan and Matthean accounts, he put it…
GREAT FIGURES OF THE MISSIONARY WORK – Bengal and the Kingdom of the Dragon (3)
Joaquim Magalhães de Castro Tomé Pires and Duarte Barbosa are the first to give us news of the kingdoms of Bengal populated by “people of war and of trade,” that is, warriors and merchants, highlighting the riches such as cotton,…
UNIVERSITY OF ST JOSEPH – Bachelor of Philosophy
The Bachelor of Philosophy introduces you to the lasting questions of the great philosophical traditions of East and West and the human experience in general.
ALFIE “DISCARDED” – The root of evil is in England
Featured Image: Chuttersnap at Unsplash Riccardo Cascioli Speaking of the rulings on the Alfie case, many have recalled the Nazi laws. But it is a reductive reconstruction, because the true origin lies in the Eugenetic Societies that flourished at the…
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH FATHER GIOVANNI SCALESE (1) – Between Rome and Kabul
Featured Image: https://agensir.it Aurelio Porfiri There is an interesting Catholic blog called Antiquo Robore. Curious to investigate who was behind this bilingual blog (English-Italian), I soon discovered that the person behind the well-researched blog has a story that was even more…