– Fr Leonard E Dollentas Twice, I have visited the Basilica of Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, in Spain. The first was with a group of pilgrims, and it was brief with just few souvenir photos at the sight. The second…
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– Tej Francis JINOTEGA, NICARAGUA TWO CHURCHES DESECRATED IN NICARAGUAN DIOCESE (ACI Prensa) Two churches in the Diocese of Jinotega in northern Nicaragua have been desecrated in the past week, amid rising tensions between the Church and the government of…
GOVERNMENT-ALIGNED BISHOPS RELEASE ‘SINICIZATION’ PLAN
AsiaNews – BEIJING, CHINA (Crux) Continuing a controversial plan, Chinese bishops allied with the government have told dioceses to prepare local versions of a “Sinicization” program to bring the Catholic Church more in line with the government’s understanding of Chinese…
GREAT FIGURES OF THE MISSIONARY WORK – Bengal and the Kingdom of the Dragon (14)
– Joaquim Magalhães de Castro In the beginning of the 17th century, the Kingdom of the Cocho had its headquarters in Hajo. Although it was visible on the northern side of Brahmaputra, that city was not the destination of the…
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– Tej Francis GLASGOW, SCOTLAND UNIVERSITY REMOVES PRIEST WHO HOSTED ROSARY OF REPARATION FOR GAY PRIDE PARADE (CNA/EWTN News) A Catholic priest in Glasgow has been removed as a university chaplain after hosting a rosary of reparation for the city’s…
POPE NAMES THREE NEW BISHOPS FOR JAPAN
At 11 am local time, the 16th of July 2018, at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Tamatsukuri Church) in Japan, Fr Josep Maria Abella Batlle, CMF and Fr. Paul Toshihiro Sakai of the Opus…
FRANCE, A VOCATIONAL DESERT
– Aldo Maria Valli In France the crisis of vocations is becoming increasingly evident. According to data provided by La Croix, the new ordinations for this year are 114, compared to 133 in 2017. Eighty-two of the new priests are…
HUMANAE VITAE FIFTY YEARS HENCE (3) – From Paul to Francis
FAUSTO GOMEZ OP I read once more Blessed Paul VI Encyclical Letter Humane Vitae (1968) in June 2018. Thereafter, I re-visited its doctrinal development through its fifty years of existence. Clearly, the Magisterium of the Church re-reads, interprets, renews and…
BEAUTY THAT UPLIFTS – In what sense is sacred music pastoral?
Aurelio Porfiri I used to read, many years ago, an American magazine called Pastoral Music, published by the National Association of Pastoral Musicians (NPM). In recent years, mulled over this theme of the pastoral value of music, of how…
CROATIAN COACH WALKS WITH THE ROSARY – Zlatko Dalić, a man of faith
Miguel Augusto (*) Croatia coach Zlatko Dalić, who led the national team to the World Cup finals in Russia, is a man of faith. Zlatko Dalić was the first coach of Croatia to reach a final of the most…