– Joaquim Magalhães de Castro Sebastião Manrique, an Augustinian missionary and a Portuguese traveler, visited Dhaka in September 1640 and stayed there for about twenty-seven days. According to him, the city stretched along the Buriganga River for more than four…
– Tej Francis PHILIPPINES PHILIPPINE CATHOLIC PRIESTS: ‘THEY ARE KILLING US’ (Al Jazeera) The killings of three Catholic priests since December have raised alarm in the Philippines, with the church and political leaders condemning the continued “culture of impunity” in…
Featured Image: Pope Francis holds a baby, during a special audience with members of the confederation of Italian cooperatives, in Paul VI hall at the Vatican. (Photo by Reuters.) – Elise Harris (CNA/EWTN News).- In a speech to a family…
Joaquim Magalhães de Castro In Dhaka, traffic is hellish, a crazy mixture of pedal rickshaws and motorized ones. And many pedestrians, in a frantic search of space to be able to move on. There are also camouflaged military men…
Aurelio Porfiri Not long ago, I have received a very interesting book by Carocci, an Italian publisher. The book is called Una sposa per Gesù. Maria Maddalena fra antichità e postmoderno. Being part of the generation that was under…
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA AUSTRALIAN LAW MANDATES REPORTING ABUSE ADMISSIONS MADE IN CONFESSIONAL (Catholic News Service) Laws requiring Catholic priests to break the seal of confession in some cases passed the Australian Capital Territory’s Legislative Assembly in Canberra June 7. The…
Associated Press Hannah Brockhaus (CNA/EWTN News) – Only the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, the food of life, can satisfy the hunger of hearts for love, a universal experience, Pope Francis said during Mass Sunday for the Solemnity of…
Miguel Augusto (*) On Thursday, May 31, the Holy Father appointed Archbishop Henryk Hoser S.A. – archbishop emeritus of Warsaw-Prague (Poland) – Apostolic Visitor of a special character for the parish of Medjugorje, for an indefinite period and ad nutum…
Aurelio Porfiri There are several scholars and witnesses that have reflected on the recent turbulent past of China, including the one of Hong Kong and Macau. The 20th century was an age of great transformation in Chinese society and there…
Joaquim Magalhães de Castro Despite religious differences, relations between the Portuguese missionaries and the Muslim community, which had great respect for them, were almost always cordial. Such was the case with Father Simão Figueiredo, who had lived there for decades,…
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