Joaquim Magalhães de Castro Sangay takes us directly to the local monastery, the Chhuka Dzongkhag, after decades of total carelessness, recently rehabilitated. Seriously wrecked by an earthquake in 1978 – the cracks in the walls of a surrounding stupa is…
The Most Reverend Michael YEUNG Ming-cheung (楊鳴章), Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong, passed away due to liver failure in Canossa (Caritas) Hospital at 1:30 PM on 3 January 2019. He was 73. Born on 1 December 1945…
– Tej Francis A devout man named Diotallevi d’Antonio Santilli was the owner of a modest house near the town of Spoleto, Italy, located on the road to Trevi. In all the documents of the time, the owner of the…
– Joaquim Magalhães de Castro As the vehicle struggled over the uphill zigzag path that came from the main road, we are able to see several houses in ruins, proving the ancestrality of the place. We had witnessed nothing of…
– Robert Carroll St Joseph Freinademetz The First Saint To Ever Serve in Hong Kong. A Catholic Musical produced in Hong Kong is planned to be staged in Macau. The show’s producer Fr Tan Lei Tao has long been hugely…
– José Maria C.S. André This year, the crib of St. Peter’s Square is a 16 m long, 5 m high and 6 m deep sand sculpture. It took 20 large trucks to transport 700 tons of sand from Jesolo…
Christopher Wells (Vatican News) “Peace be to this house!” In his greeting to the world for the 52nd World Day of Peace, Pope Francis takes up the words proposed by Christ in the Gospel. The Holy Father notes that “the…
– Tej Francis LEICESTER, UNITED KINGDOM BISHOP SAYS IRAQI CHRISTIANS WANT TO STAY, CONTRIBUTE TO COUNTRY (Crux) Bishop Paul McAleenan said he was “shocked” by what he saw during a recent trip to northern Iraq to visit with…
– Joaquim Magalhães de Castro After the assault, devoid of anyone who understood the local language – “in the midst of hills frequented by thieves, without having to guide me along” – since the interpreters had been accomplices of the…
In Genoa, Italy there lived a poor woman, named Petruccia who undertook to build a church, which appeared to everyone impossible; she did not fail to lay the first stone of it, and assured everyone that she should not die…
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