Category: World

– 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…

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…

– Tej Francis PARIS, FRANCE ‘WHAT CAN WE SAY?’ FRENCH BISHOPS CAUTIOUS IN RESPONSE TO ‘YELLOW VEST’ PROTESTS (CNA) French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe announced Tuesday morning that the government would suspend the imposition of a proposed fuel tax increase…

– Joaquim Magalhães de Castro Back on our way, I notice that the altitude now allows the growth of firs and pines of various types and sizes. From the bare rocks stand out small and joyous waterfalls whose fate reveal…