(Catholic News Agency) An Italian nun who was stabbed to death by three teenage girls was beatified on Sunday, after Pope Francis declared her a martyr, killed “in hatred of the faith.”
HOW A ‘CULTURE OF CONVERSION’ TRANSFORMED A CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL
(Catholic News Agency) An all-boys Catholic high school in Tampa, Florida is attracting attention for fostering a faith-filled environment that helped lead nearly two dozen of its students into the Church last month.
FORGIVING IS GOOD FOR THE HEART AND MIND – Cardinal Pell after a year in prison
Fr Leonard E Dollentas In 2019 the world saw Australian Cardinal George Pell in the headlines after the Melbourne County Court found him guilty of sexually abusing two choir boys and was sentenced to six years in prison.
Macau celebrates the Feast of St Anthony
António dos Santos On the 13th of June of each year, the Universal Church commemorates St Anthony of Lisbon, also known as St Anthony of Padua, where he preached and from where he journeyed to eternity. In Macau, as in…
FATHER ABYIOT DESALEGN, PARISH PRIEST IN ITANG, ETHIOPIA – Empowering women to provide for their families
Marco Carvalho Five hundred years since it first enticed Europe, the mythical kingdom of Prester John remains deeply religious and deeply devout, and faith – whatever the rite or denomination – is still for many a undeniable sign of identity.…
BITE-SIZE THEOLOGY (132) – What’s the right way of receiving Communion?
Rev José Mario O Mandíajmom.honlam.org Saint Augustine once taught: “Christ held Himself in His hands when He gave His Body to His disciples saying: ‘This is My Body.’ No one partakes of this Flesh before he has adored it. We…
Let’s go to Saint Athanasius..and we will understand many things
Corrado Gnerre I have heard of Saint Athanasius, who would have lived through a period of very serious crisis in the Church, comparable in a certain way to the current one. But who was Saint Athanasius really and why is…
The Inner Propensity of the Word of God
Fr Jijo Kandamkulathy CMFClaretian Publications, Macau 13 June 2021 – 11th Sunday in Ordinary Time -Year BMark 4:26-34 Today’s gospel presents three parables of the Kingdom of God. Parables are used when a certain reality is not immediately perceivable to…
Latinorum Latinorum….
Aurelio Porfiri The news about restrictions on the Tridentine Mass is making the rounds these days and one of the problems stated is the Latin language. That is, the Mass should be restricted because people don’t understand Latin. Now, I…
MOTHER’S MEAL MACAU – Lending a hand to Ethiopian widows and single mothers
Mother’s Meal Macau recently extended financial help to a needy village in Ethiopia to help train widows and single mothers in animal husbandry. Fr Abiyot Desalegn, parish priest of Itang’s St Don Bosco Catholic Parish in the Apostolic Vicariate of…