Category: Faith & Life

Aurelio Porfiri There is true hypocrisy and false hypocrisy in matters of faith. If we say that it is right to do something, even if we are not up to the same principles that we take as a model of…

Robaird O’CearbhaillHong Kong Correspondent Why did the Irish Miracle monkssave Western Europe and the Church from barbarism from the 5th century until the next millennium? Isn’t it a wonder that a newly-baptized, non-Roman, rural society Island, the last edge of…

Aurelio Porfiri Catholicism has had many enemies in its history. The opposition of the world still exists today. After all, Jesus himself had foreseen it. Unfortunately, this opposition comes not only from outside the Church, but also from inside.

Robaird O’CearbhaillHong Kong Correspondent The brilliant abbess Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179), in her lifetime and beyond, was celebrated as a scientist, music composer and  had several other extraordinary  talents as well,  becoming world famous in the later decades of the…

António dos Santos The solemnity of St Peter and St Paul is one of the oldest in the Church. As early as the fourth century, there was a tradition of celebrating three Masses on this day: the first in St…

Corrado Gnerre The writer is a mother of a fifteen-year-old boy. My son has been reading books about the Grail for some time. Leafing through them, however, I realized that they are texts impregnated with magic, esotericism, occultism and other…

Aurelio Porfiri I recently watched a video of a debate between a non-denominational Bible scholar, a rabbi, an Orthodox bishop, a Protestant biblical scholar, and a Catholic priest. The rabbi had a skullcap, the bishop wore an ecclesiastical dress appropriate…

José Maria C.S. André A few days ago (May 29), the Church beatified three Spanish martyr nurses, Olga Pérez (23 years old), María Pilar Gullón (25 years old) and Octavia Iglesias (41 years old).

Fausto Gomez OP When one speaks of war from an ethical and Christian perspective, he or she will most probably think of “the Just War Theory.” In the past, and up to the twentieth century, wars seemed to be inevitable…