– Joaquim Magalhães de Castro In absolute contrast, and in a glazed shop window, to the visitor’s gaze is displayed a huge book of sixty-pounds, the equivalent in paper of a soccer field. Its pages contain a selection of color…
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THE 115 YEARS OF SISTER ANDRÉ – “I hope God will take me this year”
– Aldo Maria Valli Today I want to talk to you about a nun. Her name is Sister André, she is French and on Monday 11 February, on the day of the Virgin of Lourdes, she turned into the beauty…
VATICAN MEETING ON PROTECTION OF MINORS – Facing an “urgent challenge of our time”
Pope Francis greets bishops during his weekly audience at St Peter’s Square on October 8, 2014 in Vatican City, Vatican. (Franco Origlia/Getty) (Vatican News) Pope Francis, following the recitation of the Angelus prayer on Sunday, 17 February, focused his…
Great Figures of the Missionary Work – Bengal and the Kingdom of the Dragon (39)
Joaquim Magalhães de Castro Given the specificity of our visit, and after a breakfast of delicious and nutritious red rice, the option for this morning can only be the National Library, founded in 1967 with the aim of “preserving…
CATHOLIC CHURCH CELEBRATES ON 11 FEBRUARY THE APPARITIONS OF OUR LADY IN LOURDES – Grotto is Window to Heaven
Replica of the grotto of Lourdes next to the church in Penha Hill Miguel Augusto (*) Last Monday, February 11, the Catholic community around the world woke up with messages of the feast day of Our Lady of Lourdes…
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PORTLAND, OREGON LOVE GOD? LET YOUR MUSIC AIM HIGH, ARCHBISHOP SAMPLE SAYS (CNA/EWTN News) Sacred music has a special role in the Catholic liturgy, and Archbishop Alexander Sample of Portland in Oregon has written a pastoral letter reflecting on how…
FRANCIS IN THE ARABIAN PENINSULA A singular journey
Vatican News Carlos Frota For many years I feel that there are moments I must revisit time and again. “This is exceptional! This is unique!” – I hear myself saying, witnessing those special moments. The Papal visit to Abu…
SEPTEMBER 2018 PROVISIONAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE HOLY SEE AND THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA – Duties of Chinese Bishops Received into Full Communion
(Zenit) The Vatican Press Office on February 2, 2019, released the following article, which appears in the February 3, 2019, edition of the Vatican newspaper, Osservatore Romano. On 22 September 2018 in Beijing, the Holy See and the People’s…
ST JOHN BOSCO – To God who gladdens my youth
– Aurelio Porfiri If a Martian landed now from a distant planet on our land, what kind of news would he see about the Catholic Church? Reading the press, one would think that this religious institution is known almost only…
GREAT FIGURES OF THE MISSIONARY WORK – Bengal and the Kingdom of the Dragon (38)
– Joaquim Magalhães de Castro Dating back to 1953, the Dechencholing Palace, the official residence of the Bhutanese royal family, stands in a place full of history. There was there before a small fortress monastery that in 1641 Shabdrung reconsecrated…