Category: Faith & Life

– Maria Kwak It was the first of November, 1586 when the Augustinians first arrived in Macau. Macau was then a Portuguese colony, governed by the Spanish Empire’s Felipe II (r. 1581-1598). The Spanish Friar, Francisco Manrique (d. 1588) with…

– 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…

– 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…

– 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…

– 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…

– 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…

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.

– 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”?…