– 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…
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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…
THE EUCHARIST (3) – Our Daily Bread and Spiritual Food
– Joni Cheng In the Old Testament, the manna that was given by God to the Sons of Israel in the desert was a prefiguration of the Eucharist (CCC 1094), which “He rained down upon them manna to eat, and…
ON PILGRIMAGE (3) – St Therese, the Little Flower
– Sr Margaret Fung Today is the third day of our pilgrimage, we will be very busy going from one place to another, without stop. Apart from admiring the scenery of France, this afternoon, we will arrive in Lisieux —…
ROOTS OF CRISIS – Modernity and modernism
– Aurelio Porfiri The word “modernism” perhaps does not say much to many people. Yet this current of thought was a great concern for the Church, especially in the early twentieth century. This concern came from the fact that modernism…
MARIAN APPARITIONS (76) – Vinay, France
The village of Plantees, France, was Catholic in 1649. A farmer in the area, Pierre Port-Combet, had abandoned the Catholic Faith for the heresy known as Calvinism. He refused to allow his devout wife to raise their six children in…
HUMANAE VITAE FIFTY YEARS HENCE (4) – Regulation of births
Free-Photos at Pixabay – Fausto Gomes OP Through its fifty years of development (1968-2018) of the Encyclical Letter Humanae Vitae of Pope Paul VI, three themes continue on center stage: responsible parenthood and regulation of birth, overpopulation, and poverty. In…