Category: World

– Tej Francis Email: tejfrancis@gmail.com VATICAN CITY Preventing pandemic: Vatican moves to stop spread of corona virus   (CNS) The month of March is usually when tourists flock to the Eternal City after the cold winter months and pilgrims come…

– Tej Francis Email: tejfrancis@gmail.com (VATICAN NEWS) It’s two years until the next World Youth Day, which will take place in the city of Lisbon in 2022 and in that intervening time, Pope Francis is inviting young people to reflect…

– Anastasios Many tourists often find themselves inside the Basilica of the Santi Ambrogio e Carlo, because this Basilica faces “il Corso,” Via del Corso, one of the main avenues of Rome that begins from Piazza Venezia all the way…

– Aurelio Porfiri “The pestilence, as the Tribunal of Health had feared, did enter the Milanese with the German troops. It is also a known fact that it was not limited to that territory, but that it spread over and…

– Joaquim Magalhães de Castro Despite the loss of resources derived from the annexation by Spain of the entire national territory in 1580, feared and respected remained the Portuguese strain throughout the Mogul empire, a fact that would curb the…

– Tej Francis Email: tejfrancis@gmail.com ROME With no Ash Wednesday Masses, bishops in northern Italy share prayers (CNS) While Ash Wednesday Masses were canceled in several northern Italian dioceses to prevent the spread of the corona virus, bishops composed special…

– Tej Francis Email: tejfrancis@gmail.com (CNA) On Ash Wednesday, Pope Francis called on Catholics to go to Confession during Lent to experience God’s healing love. “We can receive God’s forgiveness in the sacrament of Penance because there, the fire of…

– Aurelio Porfiri This first part of 2020 will certainly be remembered because of the coronavirus epidemic. There is no doubt that this problem dictates the agenda of governments, media and cultural institutions. In Italy, where I am now, the…

– Carlos Frota A good fight … in many fronts. Pope Francis is a warrior, but an uncommon one,  a warrior of the good war, on behalf of the poorest of the world.  Two topics of the Pope’a agenda, in…

– Joaquim Magalhães de Castro All the inhabitants of Hugli were seen as vassals of the Grand Mogol and paid customs duties to him that satisfied the governor of the recently conquered province. To some of the merchants, “the most…