– Vittorio Messori The saintly curate of Ars – whom Pius XI proclaimed patron of the all parish priests – said with a phrase that many considered paradoxical, perhaps excessive, as happens to saints who, to us mediocre, often seem…
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BITE-SIZE PHILOSOPHY (69) – What is situation ethics?
FEATURED IMAGE: Pixel2013 at Pixabay – Rev José Mario O Mandía What happens when we ignore the object of the act (finis operis)? If we ignore the morality of the act itself, then we will have to rely only on…
A COURAGEOUS WITNESS OF THE LIGHT – 24 June 2018 – Birth of St. John The Baptist
Jer 1:4-10; 1 Pt 1:8-12; Lk 1:57-66,80 Fernando Armellini SCJ Claretian Publications In the barren womb of Elizabeth the evangelist sees depicted the sterility of Israel and the condition of death in which the whole humanity lies. The desperate situation…
GREAT FIGURES OF THE MISSIONARY WORK – Bengal and the Kingdom of the Dragon (9)
– Joaquim Magalhães de Castro Sebastião Manrique, an Augustinian missionary and a Portuguese traveler, visited Dhaka in September 1640 and stayed there for about twenty-seven days. According to him, the city stretched along the Buriganga River for more than four…
ASK THE LITURGIST (8) – The side altars
Featured Image: One of the side altars in the cathedral of Pamplona, Navarre (Spain). (Photo by José Mario O Mandía.) – Enrico Finotti The side altars are generally abandoned. However, many of them are of great value and are part…
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH DR EDMONDO LUPIERI – The Mary Magdalene “mystery” (2)
– Aurelio Porfiri I would like you may continue to lead us in what early Christianity is telling us about Mary Magdalene… After centuries of debates, two lines of interpretation emerged in the major Christian traditions. In the Greek Church,…
MARIAN APPARITIONS (71) – Chartres, France
The procession of an image of Our Lady de la Breche takes place every year at Chartres, in thanksgiving for Our Lady’s having delivered the city, when besieged by heretics, in the year 1568. It was during this siege that…
APOLOGIA (21) – Are the Gospels reliable?
Anastasios Objection 1: When the group of the texts that were to be included in the “canon” (accepted texts) was formed, it was already late (4th or 5th century) and that was the outcome of power struggles. Objection 2:…
BITE-SIZE PHILOSOPHY (68) – How about actions with multiple consequences?
Rev José Mario O Mandía jmom.honlam.org We have seen that the goodness or evil of an act is based on the act itself (finis operis), the intention of the doer (finis operantis), and the circumstances surrounding it. Life, however, is…
Upon Awakening We Look at the Ripe Ears
17 JUNE 2018 – 11TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME (B) Ez 17:22-24; 2 Cor 5:6-10; Mark 4:26-34 Fr Fernando Armellini SCJ Claretian Publications, Macau Can the growth of God’s Kingdom be accelerated? Jesus responds to this question with…