– Marco Carvalho The Lusophone Scouts Group of Macau (GELMac) joined forces with the local Diocese and the Friends of Mozambique Association and raised 50,000 patacas to help the victims of the cyclone that struck the center of Mozambique in…
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CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND – Muslims and Christians, brothers in mourning
– Carlos M Frota A fortnight ago the world was deeply shocked by the attack against two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, during Friday prayers. Fifty innocent worshipers died and many more were wounded. And added to the tragedy itself,…
GREAT FIGURES OF THE MISSIONARY WORK – Bengal and the Kingdom of the Dragon (46)
– Joaquim Magalhães de Castro In Paro, Cacela and Cabral faced new difficulties. The man who accompanied them stole everything they had to feed themselves and lodged them in a very dark house where they stayed in a state of…
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– Tej Francis MONTREAL, CANADA ‘WE’RE IN A VERY DIFFERENT TIME NOW’: MONTREAL OFFICIALS OUST CRUCIFIX FROM CITY HALL (CNA) A crucifix that has hung on the wall of Montreal’s City Hall since 1937, reminding city officials to let…
NORWEGIAN LUTHERAN BISHOPS, ABORTION AND THE “FAR SIGHT” OF CERTAIN CATHOLICISM
– Aldo Maria Valli Years ago, in Oslo, during a dinner I met a Norwegian Lutheran pastor. We started chatting and I discovered he was married. Not only. He was married, divorced and remarried. With a female pastor. In turn…
CARDINAL TAGLE IN FATIMA – Asian cardinals preside over main pilgrimages this year
– Marco Carvalho The Archbishop of Manila, Luis Antonio Tagle, will be in Portugal in May to preside over the first international pilgrimage of the year, in the Sanctuary of Fatima. In October, it will be the Archbishop of Seoul’s…
GREAT FIGURES OF THE MISSIONARY WORK – Bengal and the Kingdom of the Dragon (45)
– Joaquim Magalhães de Castro Let us return to the journey and its protagonists, who let us at the gates of the old capital. On arriving at Paro, on the 25th day of March, feast of the Annunciation, “the…
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– Tej Francis WASHINGTON D.C. CATHOLIC LEADERS SPEAK OUT AGAINST ‘REMAIN IN MEXICO’ POLICY (CNA) Catholic leaders released a statement this week in disagreement with the United States’ expansion of a policy that restricts asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico…
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH EUGENIO CAPOZZI – A new gnosis: the ‘politically correct’
– Aurelio Porfiri There is a book by a well known Italian scholar, Eugenio Capozzi, called Politicamente corretto. Storia di un’ideologia (Politically correct. History of an ideology, Marsilio 2018) that is really worth reading – a book that takes us…
GREAT FIGURES OF THE MISSIONARY WORK – Bengal and the Kingdom of the Dragon (44)
– Joaquim Magalhães de Castro The title of the publication of the magazine Kailash, Journal of Himalayan Studies, “Letter from the First Westerner to Bhutan, Tibet, Nepal, Joao Cabral (1559-1699),” is misleading because it omits Cacela’s performance. Let us not…