Category: World

– 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…

– 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…

– 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…

– 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…

– 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…

– 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…

– 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…

– 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…

– Tej Francis ROME, ITALY POPE FRANCIS: ABUSE REVELATIONS ARE PURIFYING THE CHURCH (CNA) God is purifying his Church through the painful revelations of the abuse scandals, so do not be discouraged, Pope Francis said Thursday in a meeting with…

– Joaquim Magalhães de Castro I find it strange, now, after all these months, that Professor Yonten Dargye, during our conversation in one of the beautiful halls of the Library of Thimphu, had made no allusion to an evocative coin…