– Carlos M. Frota We live in a world of contrasts and fractures. We don’t have to be an expert at all to know it: just following the news on television we feel it. Recent news, for example, tells us…
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POPE FRANCIS’ MESSAGE FOR THE THIRD WORLD DAY OF THE POOR – Listening to the cry of the poor today
StockSnap at Pixabay – FAUSTO GOMEZ OP Aporofobia is a Spanish word, coined by ethicist Adela Cortina. It is composed of two Greek words: aporoi or poor, and fobia or fear, dislike, rejection, hatred of the poor. It was…
SUPREME PONTIFF’S VISIT STRENGTHENS CATHOLICS’ FAITH AND PERSEVERANCE , THAI BELIEVERS SAY – In Thailand, Pope Francis enjoys a reputation for great righteousness
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…
WHERE “MUSEUM” CAME FROM – The Vatican and the pagan deities
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,…
SAINT MARY MAJOR – Mary and the snow
– 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…
THERE IS NO LOVE WITHOUT TRUTH
– 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…
BITE-SIZE THEOLOGY (56) – How can we profit from evil?
– 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…
COURAGE, LIFT UP YOUR HEAD! – 17th November 2019, 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time, C
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…
FROM THE BOOK OF PSALMS TO THE RESPONSORIAL PSALM (1) – The Book Of Psalms: an introduction
– 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…
SAINT PETER – The triumph of Catholic faith
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…