Category: World

– FAUSTO GOMEZ OP After Albert Camus received the news of the Nobel Prize for Literature, he wrote a letter to his teacher Monsieur Germain (November 1957): “I have just been given far too great an honor, one I neither…

– Fr Leonard E. Dollentas The Catholic University of America (CUA) has long been considered as the National University of the Catholic Church in the United States. Like most private institutions today, CUA is recently going through financial difficulties, incurring…

– Joaquim Magalhães de Castro The report tells us that on the day Cacela and Cabral arrived at Rintam (now Chapcha, as we have seen), there also arrived a relative of the man who had negotiated the journey in Rangamati.…

– Tej Francis PANAMA CITY, PANAMA SMALL, WELL-FUNDED LGBT GROUP TO CHALLENGE CATHOLIC TEACHING AT WORLD YOUTH DAY (CNA) A U.S.-based coalition of dissenting Catholics, whose backers include wealthy non-Catholic funders, is sending a small group of LGBT activists to…

Last December 2018, the English-speaking community of Macau Cathedral prepared for an outreach program to the Philippines.  It was launched during the Simbang-Gabi (Christmas Novena Masses). Fr Leonard E Dollentas the priest-in-charge of the Macau Cathedral English-speaking community explained to…

– Stefano Magni The end of the year was marked by alarming signals from China. Not only for Apple, the American giant of hi-tech, whose stock has collapsed in the stock market due to the contraction of the Chinese market,…

– Seán-Patrick Lovett For thousands of young people, the arrival of Pope Francis in Panama on Wednesday afternoon marks the true beginning of the 34th World Youth Day. (Vatican News) There were those who had waited at the airport all…

– Marco Carvalho A former teacher at the University of Saint Joseph, Italian composer Aurelio Porfiri is in neighboring Hong Kong to teach a series of lectures on the history of Catholic inspired music. The initiative takes place in the…

– Joaquim Magalhães de Castro Upon our arrival we were indeed intrigued with a small bonfire in the middle of the road that a middle-aged man at times revived with the help of a long stick. It is, as Sangay…