Category: Faith & Life

– 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,…

– 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 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…

– 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…

– 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).…

– Marco Carvalho Saint John Paul II was the central figure of an art exhibition that was recently held at the Seminary of Saint Joseph. The twenty paintings that Polish artist Joanna Sobcyzk-Pająk brought to Macau are part of a…

FEATURED IMAGE: Cardinal Ratzinger with Pope Paul VI. – Don Enrico Finotti Recently there has been a growing discussion on the Council and its interpretation. Pope Benedict XVI proposed the motto “reform in continuity,” but the debate continues. I would…

– Anastasios Saint Prosper of Aquitaine (390-463) was a layman, disciple of Saint Augustine, a man of great doctrine and knowledge. He was a secretary of Pope Leo the Great. Most of his writings deal with heresies that were rampant…

– Rev José Mario O Mandía “He does whatever he pleases” (Psalm 115:3). Through reason we discover many attributes of God. Our faith confirms these attributes. Among all these divine attributes, however, we are obliged by the Creed to declare…