Category: Faith & Life

Joaquim Magalhães de Castro Tomé Pires and Duarte Barbosa are the first to give us news of the kingdoms of Bengal populated by “people of war and of trade,” that is, warriors and merchants, highlighting the riches such as cotton,…

Featured Image: https://agensir.it Aurelio Porfiri There is an interesting Catholic blog called Antiquo Robore.  Curious to investigate who was behind this bilingual blog (English-Italian), I soon discovered that the person behind the well-researched blog has a story that was even more…

Pompeii is a ruined Roman city near Naples in the Italian region of Campania, in the territory of the commune of Pompeii. This city was destroyed by the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. The city that developed…

Featured Image: Photo by Paul Lin on Unsplash Ross Belle Balatbat Mother – in defining it – it is virtually endless.  Because motherhood is inherent to the individual they are not aware that their role as mothers is written all over…

Aurelio Porfiri I would like to talk a little more about the problem of ‘68. There are several books about this fateful age. Vatican II was convened between 1962 and 1965. The Novus Ordus of the Mass (we call it…

FEATURED IMAGE: moritz320 at Pixabay Rev José Mario O Mandía Last time we saw how our experience leads us to the need for ethics and morality. We have seen that the concepts of good and evil are related to and…

Anastasios The School of Alexandria, was one of the most important theological schools in the earliest centuries of Christianity.  A tradition said that the school was initiated by the apostle Mark. Alexandria, in Egypt, was a city renown also for…