Fausto Gomez OP Thomas a Kempis tells us that patience is necessary because we have to face many adversities in this life (cf. Imitation of Christ). What is the road to patience? God is patient with us. The omnipotent and…
ST ALPHONSUS LIGUORI – From lawyer to priest to saint
António dos Santos On Sunday, 1st August, the Universal Church celebrates St Alphonsus Liguori. In an audience in St Peter’s Square on March 30, 2011, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI spoke to us about St Alphonsus Liguori. When presenting the holy…
PARISH PRIEST IN WORST HIT TOWN – Many preventable dead in German flood
Robaird O’CearhaillHong Kong Correspondent As Northern Europe is ravaged by heatwaves, the deadliest disaster was a tsunami-type flood. Why, when predictably heavy floods were on the way, said official weather forecasts, in a German district, are there 177 dead and…
The Red Priest
Aurelio Porfiri I believe there are few musicians who have a posthumous contemporary fame like the Venetian Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741), who died 280 years ago on 28 July in a situation of near poverty and buried in a mass grave…
CRUCIAL NATIVE ECOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE (3) – Caring for our home
Robaird O’Cearbhaill As Laudato si declares: Care for our common home, the planet, is our duty. Native people have been doing that for aeons, using traditional knowledge all over the world, before colonialism and large-scale intensive farming replaced native practices,…
MISSIONARIES FROM MACAU TO THE WORLD – Saint Lazarus Island (56)
Joaquim Magalhães de Castro Once he arrived in Matsumae, Diogo de Carvalho immediately retired to “the house of an ancient Christian of ours.” He does not mention his name although he assures us that “the joy with which everyone in…
SISTERS UNLOAD TONS OF FOOD, FEED HUNGRY IN HO CHI MINH’S COVID CRACKDOWN
(Global sisters report) Thirty Da Lat Lovers of the Holy Cross sisters hurriedly prepare and cook rice, fish, meat and vegetables, packing meals in foam boxes at the kitchen in their day care center in Ho Chi Minh City.
POPE FRANCIS SADDENED AT LOSS OF LIFE IN IRAQ
(Vatican News) “His Holiness Pope Francis was deeply saddened to learn of the loss of life in the explosion at the Al-Wuhailat market in Baghdad”.
UNDERCOVER PRIESTS, ITALIAN COPS BUST $2 MILLION FAKE CARDINALS SCAM
(Crux) A group of conmen who dressed up as cardinals to swindle victims out of millions of dollars have been caught by Italian police, in an undercover sting operation conducted by officers who were disguised as priests.
Tokyo Archdiocese cancels pastoral program for athletes due to pandemic
Fr Leonard Dollentas The postponed 32nd Olympic Games in Tokyo 2020 proceeded in a simplified manner and was opened on 23 July 2021. It will be concluded on 8 August 2021. With a huge number of people involved in the…