– Anastasios There are not many popes that are called “the Great.” Probably the most famous of them is Saint Gregory (540-604). He came from a very important family, the gens anicia, a family that gave the Church great names…
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BITE-SIZE THEOLOGY (54) – What causes moral evil?
– Rev José Mario O Mandía Aside from physical evil, there is moral evil or sin. Sin arose from the free decision of those creatures with intellect and will: angels and men. The CCC (no 311) teaches us: “Angels and…
LOVING THE SINNER – 2nd November 2019, 31st Sunday of the Year
Luke 19:1-10 – Fr Fernando Armellini SCJ Claretian Publications, Macau In today’s passage, it is Zacchaeus – a publican, considered to be evil by all – who is in search of Jesus. By a strange twist of fate the name…
HOW TO TRAIN CHURCH CHOIRS (9) – Let the children join a choir
– Aurelio Porfiri When talking about choirs, we have mentioned the difficulties and the struggles to establish a good musical program in the parish or in the church that one attends. These difficulties and struggles are real and we cannot…
CHRISTIANITY: an enemy of progress?
– Corrado Gnerre I recently saw the film Angels and Demons, based on the novel of the same name by Dan Brown. It seems to me that after The Da Vinci Code, which denies the historicity of the Gospels, Angels…
THE CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH ON THE DEATH PENALTY – From acceptance to abolition
– Fr Fausto Gomez, OP We present a concise summary of the teaching of the Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC) and comment on the teachings and development of the doctrine on the death penalty in CCC from 1992, through…
CHURCH FATHERS (77) – Boethius
When we speaking about Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, commonly known as Boethius (477-526?), we are speaking of one of the greatest minds of Christian philosophy.
BITE-SIZE THEOLOGY (53) – Did God create evil?
– Rev José Mario O Mandía When we talk about creation and God’s goodness, we inevitably come across the problem of evil. Why is there evil? Where did it come from? First of all, what do we mean by “evil”?…
THE INCONSISTENCY OF THE MERIT CERTIFICATE BEFORE GOD – 27th October 2019, 30th Sunday In Ordinary Time
Luke 18:9-14 – Fr. Fernando Armellini SCJ Claretian Publications, Macau In the outset, we dislike the hypocritical, disagreeable, proud and presumptuous Pharisee. Our sympathies are all for the publican who, poor guy, did something wrong but has a golden heart.
WE ARE IN A CRAZY WORLD
– Corrado Gnerre Dear friend, here we don’t understand anything. What is taken for granted is questioned. The normal is considered “abnormal” and the abnormal “normal. But what happened? I don’t understand anything anymore.