Aurelio Porfiri The news about restrictions on the Tridentine Mass is making the rounds these days and one of the problems stated is the Latin language. That is, the Mass should be restricted because people don’t understand Latin. Now, I…
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Antonio Rosmini and priesthood between heart and mind
Aurelio Porfiri He was a great Catholic intellectual figure and a man of great spirituality. We are talking about the Italian Blessed Antonio Rosmini (1797-1855), a friend of the great Italian writer Alessandro Manzoni and a key figure in Catholicism…
MOTHER’S MEAL MACAU – Lending a hand to Ethiopian widows and single mothers
Mother’s Meal Macau recently extended financial help to a needy village in Ethiopia to help train widows and single mothers in animal husbandry. Fr Abiyot Desalegn, parish priest of Itang’s St Don Bosco Catholic Parish in the Apostolic Vicariate of…
SOLEMNITY OF THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS – Open wound that gives life
The Church dedicates the month of June to the Sacred Heart of the Lord. Today, the Friday after the feast of Corpus Christi, is the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
Confirmation is not a “bye-bye sacrament”
Angela Chong In the few weeks prior to the day for my Sunday school students to receive the Sacrament of Confirmation, I got increasingly anxious. I doubted whether they were adequately prepared. Realizing that their learning retention was limited, I…
MISSIONARIES FROM MACAU TO THE WORLD – Saint Lazarus Island (49)
Joaquim Magalhães de Castro In the courts of Tomar, in 1581, at the time of the official consecration of the Iberian Union, Philip I of Portugal and II of Spain, took care to safeguard the interests of the Portuguese settled …
Ashes laid to rest
Father Antonio Tam Chi Cheng, SJ, former principal of Escola Estrela do Mar, Colégio Mateus Ricci, Escola do Santíssimo Rosário and spiritual director of the Federation of Catholic Schools of Macau (the current Macau Catholic Schools Association) and Serra Club…
MILITARY CHAPLAINS INSPIRED THIS SOLDIER, ABANDONED AS A TODDLER, TO ENTER SEMINARY
Tej Francis (Catholic News Service) Retired Army Col. Cameron Song Sellers served his country, and now, he’s serving God.
MALTA’S PRESIDENT: I WOULD RATHER RESIGN THAN SIGN ABORTION BILL
(Catholic News Service) The president of Malta said this week that he would rather resign than sign a bill decriminalizing abortion.
BRITISH PM BORIS JOHNSON MARRIES IN SECRET CATHOLIC WEDDING, BREAKING PROTESTANT TRADITION
(Church Pop) British Prime Minister Boris Johnson married his now-wife Carrie Symonds in a private Catholic ceremony on May 29.