– Marco Carvalho It’s one of the oldest teaching institutions in Macau, but old age hasn’t hindered its mission. Founded in 1933, the Chinese Section of Saint Rose of Lima’s School still sees as its main assignment the valorization of…
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WE NEED TO TAKE THE DANGERS OF PORNOGRAPHY SERIOULY
– Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith (Catholic Herald) It is good to know that a committee of British MPs, as this magazine reports, have had some harsh things to say about pornography. Everything they say strikes me as sensible and obvious: they…
RESTORING A CHRISTIAN FEAST – The genuine Hallowe’en
– Miguel Augusto (*) “Hallowe’en” is a word that first appeared in the 16th century, and is a Scottish variant of “All-Hallows-Evening,” that is, the night before “All Hallows,” which means “All Saints.” The real Halloween party is of Christian…
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CHURCH FATHERS (30) – Saint Epiphanius
– Anastasios Epiphanius was born on 310 in Palestine. He was a monk since a very young age and founder of monasteries. He was elected Bishop of Salamis (Cyprus) because of his great holiness. He defended orthodoxy in every way.…
BITE-SIZE THEOLOGY (5) – What other evidence do we have aside from manuscripts?
– Rev José Mario O Mandía Aside from the number and dates of the manuscripts of the Sacred Scripture (let us call these “internal evidence”), we can also make use of other works to establish the authenticity of the Scriptures…
WHEN, IN OUR LIVES, DOES JESUS PASS BY? – 28 October 2018 – 30TH Sunday In Ordinary Time
Jer 31:7-9; Heb 5:1-6; Mk 10:46-52 May Tam www.FLL.cc Bartimaeus, though blind, was alert to Jesus’ coming. Despite his social disadvantage and his physical constraint, he did not give in to the crowd who attempted to silence him. He would…
GREAT FIGURES OF THE MISSIONARY WORK – Bengal and the Kingdom of the Dragon (25)
– Joaquim Magalhães de Castro Estêvão Cacela calls the river Torsa “Ganges,” a classification comprehensible at the time, since all the streams that flowed into the Bay of Bengal were Ganges or Gangá – literally “Indian river.” The author of…
GOOD LANGUAGE IS EVIDENCE OF LIVELY AND CHRISTIAN MIND – Lutong-Makaw
– Fr Leonard E Dollentas More recently, the Oxford English Dictionary added two more Filipino words into its list of some 1,400 Filipino words and phrases the dictionary had listed. Oxford included bongga, “which means extravagant, flamboyant, impressive, stylish or…
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH FATHER ALESSANDRO ANDREINI – Around Culture
– Aurelio Porfiri Father Alessandro Andreini speaks about his fascination with the transformation processes in our lives, cultures and societies and in particular the role of Jesus Christ and the Church in that transformation.