Anastasios Objection 1: The Gospels were written decades after the events. Why they did not write immediately? Objection 2: If the events were reported decades later, it means the memory of what had really happened cannot be accurate. On…

Anastasios Objection 1: The Gospels were written decades after the events. Why they did not write immediately? Objection 2: If the events were reported decades later, it means the memory of what had really happened cannot be accurate. On…
Paul Kung Today is the memory of St Teresa of Calcutta. We gratefully make memory of her love for Jesus, whom she adored in the Eucharist and whom she served in the flesh of the poorest of the poor:…
Most Rev Fulton Sheen These are excerpts from an article especially written by Most Rev. Fulton Sheen, Bishop of Rochester for the 11 April 1968 English edition of L’Osservatore Romano, during the pontificate of Pope Paul VI. They may…
30 SEPTEMBER 2018 – 26TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME (B) NUM 11:25-29; JAS 5:1-6; MK 9:38-43, 45, 47-48 Fernando Armellini SCJ Claretian Publications, Macau The disciples were surprised, disappointed and even irritated. They ask: how can one who…
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– Anastasios In the 4th century all Christianity was shattered by an heretical doctrine, Arianism. This doctrine, among other things, taught that Jesus Christ was not the Son of God but only God’s most excellent creature. But there were lonely…
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…
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:…
– 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…