Joaquim Magalhães de Castro A few months before the beginning of the celebrations that mark the 500th anniversary of the circumnavigation trip carried out by Ferdinand Magellan (Fernão de Magalhães is his real name, and I will use it from…
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TAKING POPE FRANCIS’ CHALLENGE
Robaird O’Cearbhaill Hong Kong Correspondent Two individuals at opposite ends of the age range are Covid solvers. A 100 year-old man raised MOP 280 million (32 million in British sterling) charity walking to support UK health service workers. The other…
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JERUSALEM An Arab doctor and an ultra-Orthodox Jew find common ground in a covid ward (Washington Post) When Jesse Michael Kramer was hospitalized with the coronavirus, he realized as soon as the doctor in the spacesuit introduced himself that it…
TO TELL THE TALE OF GOD’S LOVE DOWN THE AGES (15)
Sr Judith Yuen, FMM Since my mother asked the superior in Hong Kong to send me back to her, the pre-novice mistress sensed that I needed to go back home. She asked me if I could find a job easily.…
CAUTION AS LOCKDOWN ARE EASED Churches reopening with restrictions
Tej Francis (CNS/UCAN/VATICAN NEWS) Several countries in Europe slowly eased restrictions as part of a long-term strategy for containing the spread of the coronavirus, churches, too, are seeing changes in what is or will be allowed.
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ROME Pope’s charity helps transgender prostitutes in Rome amid coronavirus fallout
CORONAVIRUS AND BIOETHICS (3) Ventilators and selection of patients
FAUSTO GOMEZ OP Bioethics is life ethics, or the ethics of human life from its beginning to its end. As a normative science, bioethics is concerned with the ethical problems connected with life, health, illness and death. It provides the…
SANTA MARIA DEGLI ANGELI E DEI MARTIRI The persistence of a Sicilian Priest
Anastasios If you arrive in Rome by train, maybe from another Italian city or from a European city connected with Rome by train, it is most likely you will arrive at Termini station, the main train station in Rome. We…
POPE FRANCIS – Our civilization needs to downshift, take stock and renew itself
– ROBAIRD O’CEARBHAILL The pandemic is wrecking economies and lives but those who suffer most are the vulnerable old and young, the already ill and especially the extreme poor. All whom Christians are duty-bound to help. A core part of…
GREAT FIGURES OF THE MISSIONARY WORK – Bengal and the Kingdom of the Dragon (99)
– Joaquim Magalhães de Castro If it is true that in the rivers and along the coast, the Mughals always failed against the Arrakanese, it should be borne in mind that the potential of the former – with an army…