Ivan Leong in Bangkok – Marco Carvalho, in Bangkok In a predominantly Buddhist country, Catholicism continues to be seen as “the religion of the West” and Catholics feel like second-class citizens, but Pope Francis’ visit to Thailand can help change…
The Round Room of the Vatican Museum, packed with pagan deities. – José Maria C.S. André The idea of building a museum emerged more than five centuries ago in the mind of some Popes. The word “museum” did not exist,…
– Anastasios The Basilica of Saint Mary Major (one of the four major Basilicas) stands on the Esquiline Hill, one of the seven hills of Rome. If you visit this Basilica you will see some differences between this Basilica and…
– Corrado Gnerre In his last encyclical, Caritas in veritate, Benedict XVI insists that charity must always start from the truth and that even charity without truth cannot exist. What do you think about it? I agree, but someone has…
– Rev José Mario O. Mandía Evil is a reality that we need to learn to face, to accept, and to sanctify. Learning to do this is, in fact, a lifetime task. Many spend their lives complaining about evil, or…
Luke 21:5-19 – Fr. Fernando Armellini SCJ Claretian Publications, Macau Luke wrote his Gospel around the year 85 AD. In the fifty years that passed since the death and resurrection of Jesus, there were wars, political revolutions, catastrophes and the…
– Aurelio Porfiri There is no Christian who is not familiar with the Book of Psalms: these 150 poems are the base for our way of praying. And for us Catholics, the liturgy is filled with texts taken from the…
PHOTO: Wikimedia – Anastasios As was said previously, we may regard Saint Peter’s Basilica as the most famous Catholic church in the world. It is one of the four so called “major Basilicas,” all of them in Rome. There is…
– Corrado Gnerre Dear friend, I am a high school student. I haven’t dealt much with God so far, in the sense of not having thought much about it. Then some lectures by my professor of Philosophy were “providential” in…
– Rev José Mario O Mandía Physical evils can be permitted or willed by God. But God never wills moral evil, he doesn’t want anyone to sin. But He permits moral evil to happen. Why? The experience of evil sometimes…
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