CN/11/012/2019 Monsignor Stephen Lee, Bishop of Macau, makes public the following arrangements in the Diocese:
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AN IMAGINARY DIALOGUE (2) – Agatha & Frederic
– Carlos Frota Here I am again, friends, to continue my story. And I am very happy in this role I assigned myself to play. Do you know why?
WHAT’S AND WHY’S – Questions children ask priests (I)
– Fr Leonard E. Dollentas In 2007, Professor Michelle Chouinard an assistant professor of psychology at the University of California found that on average, children posed more than 100 questions every hour. Interacting with very young primary school students and…
SÉ CATHEDRAL WELCOMES PAULINE JUBILEE – Daughters of St Paul celebrate 50 years of mission in Macau
– Miguel Augusto The Daughters of St Paul, known as the Pauline Sisters, celebrate the 50th Anniversary of their mission in Macau this month. On the occasion of the Anniversary, they invite the community to join the celebration that will…
ASK THE LITURGIST (30) – Confusion in the liturgy
– Don Enrico Finotti Why so much confusion in the liturgy, despite so much clarity in the documents of the Magisterium? It is necessary first of all to recognize the immense good brought by the liturgical reform where it was…
HUMAN CLONING (2) – Reproductive Cloning
– Fausto Gomez OP Cloning of cells and tissues is a valued biomedical technique, particularly in regenerative medicine, and offers no major ethical problem as long as the general norms of research on human subjects are followed. In this context,…
CHURCH FATHERS (61) – Saint Maximus of Turin
– Anastasios Saint Maximus of Turin (Northern Italy) lived between the 4th and the 5th centuries. We don’t know much about his life, we have mostly information coming from his sermons. Gennadius, of whom we talked already, in his De…
ST BASIL THE GREAT – Fourth century Christian theologian
St Basil was one of the group of great oriental theologians to whom, under God, we owe our right belief in the Trinity and the Incarnation, and also the chief organizer of ascetic community life in the East. He was…
CHURCH FATHERS (60) – Vigilius of Thapsus
– Anastasios About Vigilius of Thapsus we know not much. Thapsus was a now-defunct Catholic diocese, in what would be modern Tunisia. We have some information in the Manuale di Patrologia by PG Franceschini, a text that we have used…
BITE-SIZE THEOLOGY (36) – Why is God so puzzling?
– Rev José Mario O Mandía Both philosophy and Revelation show us that the things we see around us not only attest to the existence of a Maker but also reveal His attributes (cf Wisdom 13:1-10; Romans 1:18-20; Psalm 19:1).…