– Aurelio Porfiri The word “modernism” perhaps does not say much to many people. Yet this current of thought was a great concern for the Church, especially in the early twentieth century. This concern came from the fact that modernism…
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MARIAN APPARITIONS (76) – Vinay, France
The village of Plantees, France, was Catholic in 1649. A farmer in the area, Pierre Port-Combet, had abandoned the Catholic Faith for the heresy known as Calvinism. He refused to allow his devout wife to raise their six children in…
NEWS BRIEFS
– Tej Francis GLASGOW, SCOTLAND UNIVERSITY REMOVES PRIEST WHO HOSTED ROSARY OF REPARATION FOR GAY PRIDE PARADE (CNA/EWTN News) A Catholic priest in Glasgow has been removed as a university chaplain after hosting a rosary of reparation for the city’s…
POPE NAMES THREE NEW BISHOPS FOR JAPAN
At 11 am local time, the 16th of July 2018, at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Tamatsukuri Church) in Japan, Fr Josep Maria Abella Batlle, CMF and Fr. Paul Toshihiro Sakai of the Opus…
FRANCE, A VOCATIONAL DESERT
– Aldo Maria Valli In France the crisis of vocations is becoming increasingly evident. According to data provided by La Croix, the new ordinations for this year are 114, compared to 133 in 2017. Eighty-two of the new priests are…
FAITH EXPRESSED IN BEAUTY – Gen Verde in Macau — Take Two
Invited by the Macau SAR government in 2016, and by the Focolare Movement Community in Macau and Macau Diocesan Social Communications Centre this year, the International Performing Arts Group “Gen Verde” hosted a three-day workshop and an evening concert with…
UNIVERSITY OF SAINT JOSEPH RECTOR FR PETER STILWELL – Broadening the reach of higher education
– Pedro Daniel Oliveira A bachelor’s degree in Digital Cinema and a master’s in History and Heritage are two new courses that University of Saint Joseph is offering, its Rector Fr Peter Stilwell told O CLARIM. He also talked about…
HUMANAE VITAE FIFTY YEARS HENCE (4) – Regulation of births
Free-Photos at Pixabay – Fausto Gomes OP Through its fifty years of development (1968-2018) of the Encyclical Letter Humanae Vitae of Pope Paul VI, three themes continue on center stage: responsible parenthood and regulation of birth, overpopulation, and poverty. In…
HUMANAE VITAE FIFTY YEARS HENCE (3) – From Paul to Francis
FAUSTO GOMEZ OP I read once more Blessed Paul VI Encyclical Letter Humane Vitae (1968) in June 2018. Thereafter, I re-visited its doctrinal development through its fifty years of existence. Clearly, the Magisterium of the Church re-reads, interprets, renews and…
GAY IN THE PEW – How the Church is Reaching out to the LGBT Catholics
Fr Leonard E Dollentas “If someone is gay and searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?” These words of Pope Francis have gone viral and sent shockwaves throughout the Catholic Church and the world…