(Vatican News) In his homily on the first World Day of Grandparents and the Elderly, Pope Francis insists on the importance of young and old coming together in a covenantal sharing of life.
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Robaird O’CearbhaillHong Kong Correspondent Christopher Dawson was a foremost Catholic historian of the 20th century. He was influential in international authors such as J.R.R. Tolkien and the leading poet, Anglo-Catholic, T.S. Eliot. But where he broke new ground substantially from…
Myanmar’s Loikaw Diocese provides health services where military has failed
Robin Gomes (Vatican News) Catholic dioceses across Myanmar continue to reach out to the suffering people as the 3rd wave of the Covid-19 pandemic wreaks havoc amid an ever-deteriorating crisis due to the military coup and the protests.
MISSIONARIES FROM MACAU TO THE WORLD – Saint Lazarus Island (55)
Joaquim Magalhães de Castro Born in Coimbra in 1578, Diogo de Carvalho became a Jesuit at the age of 16. From his youth, he felt the desire to leave for the East. He would reach Macau in 1600 to study…
CATHOLIC PASTORAL CARE FOR FILIPINO MIGRANTS – Activity for the youth launched
The pandemic has brought changes to many lives – young and old from all walks of life. In order to strengthen friendship and camaraderie and to foster personal development and to strengthen the Faith, the Commission on Family & Life…
POPE: “We need to develop an “ecology of the heart”
(Vatican News) After a two-week absence, Pope Francis appeared once again at the window of the Apostolic Palace overlooking Saint Peter’s Square for the noontime Sunday Angelus. A week ago he led the Angelus prayer from Rome’s Gemelli Hospital, greeting…
WHO IS THE NUN WHO WILL BE BEATIFIED WITH CARDINAL WYSZYNSKI, POLAND’S ‘PRIMATE OF THE MILLENNIUM’?
(CNA) Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński, a giant of 20th-century Catholicism, will be beatified on Sept. 12.
AMID CATHOLIC OPPOSITION, STATES ARE LEGALIZING COMPOSTING OF HUMAN REMAINS
(NCR Online) Washington, Colorado and Oregon are now among the U.S. states that have legalized the process of converting human bodies into soil, a procedure the Catholic Church said fails to show “respect for the body of the deceased.” Meanwhile,…
MISSIONARIES FROM MACAU TO THE WORLD -Saint Lazarus Island (54)
Joaquim Magalhães de Castro There were Christian nuclei in Sendai, Miwake (today Mizusawa), Yamori (today Maesawa), Shizu, Ichinoseki, Sannoseki and Ishuzumori and the port of Akita functioned, as today, as a maritime antechamber for isolated Hokkaido, the name through which…
DEAF PRIEST WORKS TO HELP OTHERS UNDERSTAND DEAFNESS AS A CULTURE
(CNS) Father Min Seo Park, one of fewer than two dozen deaf priests worldwide, thinks deafness is hardly a disability and is working to help others realize that as well.