– Enrico Finotti Why do some readers, among those more “committed,” end the reading by saying: “This is the word of the Lord?” Is there freedom of formulation? Already the change of the established formula is mistaken, because the Church…
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INTERVIEW WITH GEN VERDE MANAGER SALLY MCALLISTER – Break the chain
– Jasmin Yiu The Focolare Movement Community in Macau and Macau Diocesan Social Communications Centre invited “Gen Verde” to host a three-day workshop on July 18 to 20, with an evening concert on July 21 to end the whole programme.…
BEYOND ALL BORDERS – 11th Genfest Brings Hope to the World “Beyond All Borders”
– Ben Lei The 11th Genfest has concluded with sharing, joy and hope in Manila, the first non-European city to host this international youth gathering. Organized by Focolare Movement, Genfest 2018 was held from the 6th to the 8th of…
ON PILGRIMAGE (4) – Blessed Mary of the Passion
– Sr Margaret Fung Although on the second day of our arrival, we went to the French provincial house of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary and also attended Mass there. We did not go to the places most important in…
GOD’S ARCHITECT – Antoni Gaudi , the architect of the Basilica of Sagrada Familia – A Holy Man
– Fr Leonard E Dollentas Twice, I have visited the Basilica of Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, in Spain. The first was with a group of pilgrims, and it was brief with just few souvenir photos at the sight. The second…
NOT MUSIC BUT PRAYER – Blessed Paul VI, Gregorian chant and the snuffed candle
– Aurelio Porfiri In the years of the post-conciliar period, one of the themes that most occupied the polemicists’ pens was that of the loss of Gregorian chant. This repertoire that the Church recognizes as its own had been ousted…
MARIAN APPARITIONS (77) – Aokpe, Nigeria
The devotees of Our Lady understandably are drawn to any important Marian apparition and here we refer to events unfolding in Nigeria under the title Mediatrix of All Graces. Father John Beirne, CSSp who is the spiritual director of the…
HUMANAE VITAE FIFTY YEARS HENCE (5) – Too many people?
– Fausto Gomez OP With the regulation of birth and responsible parenthood, other two related themes are overpopulation and poverty that we reflect upon in this last piece on the Encyclical letter Humanae Vitae of Pope Paul VI.
CHURCH FATHERS (24) – Lactantius
– Anastasios Just a while ago, talking about Arnobius, we were quoting Saint Jerome in saying: “Arnobius rhetor in Africa clarus habetur; qui cum Siccae ad declamandum iuvenes erudiret…” (In Africa, Arnobius the rhetor is considered important, who when he…
BITE-SIZE PHILOSOPHY (74) – What about subsidiarity?
Quangpraha at Pixabay – Rev José Mario O Mandía We have previously studied two important principles that should govern social life: human dignity and the common good. These two principles lead us to two more: subsidiarity and solidarity. Today we…