Category: World

On Aug. 16, the Catholic Church celebrates the feast day of King Saint Stephen of Hungary, the monarch who led his country to embrace the Christian faith during the 11th century. Before the future saint’s birth in 975, his mother,…

Paul VI watched the lunar landing in Castel Gandolfo. When the astronauts returned, he received them, accompanied by with their wives. – José Maria C.S. André A friend sent me a WhatsApp message: “The greatest thing is not that man…

– Joaquim Magalhães de Castro Prior to an archery session, competitors are advised not to spend the night with their wives to achieve a higher level of concentration, and teams often resort to astrologers (armed with puppets symbolizing archers) who…

– Tej Francis ROME After 6 years, family of kidnapped Jesuit is ‘in limbo’ (Crux) Family members of an Italian Jesuit priest who was kidnapped in Syria by members of ISIS in 2013, held a press conference in Rome on…

– Robaird O’Cearbhaill Hong Kong Correspondent As in the famous old song Irish homesick writer Ralph Cunningham is “a long way to Tipperary” where he was born. Nevertheless, as he told O Clarim, Hong Kong and Asia have very much…

– Joaquim Magalhães de Castro Estêvão Cacela traces us a portrait of the Bhutanese,  presenting them as white people, “although the little cleanliness with which they are treated makes them not look so much.” Their hair is long, covering the…

– Tej Francis ROME POPE EMERITUS BENEDICT XVI VISITS PAPAL SUMMER RESIDENCE NEAR ROME (Vatican news) He passed many a summer evening in the quiet and relative cool of the gardens behind the papal residence at Castel Gandolfo during his…

– ROBAIRD O’CEARBHAILL Hong Kong Correspondent Nicholas Bodnar-Horvath lives comfortably from a successful legal practice but does not let that go to his head. From his Catholic roots and parents he insists that you “Treat people as you would like to…

– Joaquim Magalhães de Castro To a Portuguese, like Cacela, hearing about grapes certainly attracted his attention and although this fruit did not grow in Bhutan but in another place across the border, “in a town called Compo, which is…