(CNA) The Vatican’s liturgy congregation will permit priests to say up to four Masses on Christmas Day, the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God on Jan. 1, and Epiphany to accommodate more worshipers amid the pandemic.
Funeral Mass for 640 unborn children is held in Poland
(CNA) A Catholic bishop presided Saturday at a funeral Mass for 640 unborn children in Poland.
Father Guilherme Schmid, SDB (1910-2000) and Music in Twentieth-Century Macau (2)
Jen-yen ChenGraduate Institute of MusicologyNational Taiwan University As already indicated by the foregoing discussion, Father Guilherme Schmid’s twenty-six years in Macau included activity as a conductor and a composer. His initial appointment in Macau was as an instructor in St.…
Sr. Mary Juliana (Suzanne) Devoy, RGS
Sister Mary Juliana (Suzanne) Devoy was born on February 7th 1937, the second of seven siblings. She had a desire to become a Sister in her later years of high school and, after graduation, entered the missionary novitiate of…
BITE-SIZE THEOLOGY (105) – Is there a future for our bodies?
Rev José Mario O Mandíajmom.honlam.org Once a person dies, his body starts to rot and decay (cf CCC 997). From the philosophical point of view, the soul (the substantial form of the body) gives life and unity to the body.…
God the Judge … to Save
22 November 2020 – 34th Sunday in O.T. – Christ the King – Year AMatthew 25:31-46 Fernando Armellini SCJClaretian Publications, Macau The gospel passage, today, is a judgment scene, a literary genre used both in the Bible (cf. Dan 7)…
One cannot understand Christianity without comprehending the concept of eternal life
Corrado Gnerre The Christian proclamation has become too flat on social and earthly issues. This seems to me a great betrayal of the Gospel. What do you think about it?
Cecilia sang to the Lord
Aurelio Porfiri When we think of the time we are living in, we need to think of how many classes of people are affected by the present pandemic. Of course, as you can imagine artists and musicians are one of…
A different kind of Christmas
Aurelio Porfiri In these days of mid-November, all the newspapers here in Italy talk basically about one topic: coronavirus. Now, there are many things that are connected with this pandemic, and one wonders how Christmas 2020 will be. Yes, because…
Let us talk about death
Fausto Gomez OP The terrible Covid-19 pandemic has caused and continues causing thousands upon thousands of deaths throughout the world. The deadly novel coronavirus is making us all vividly aware of the fragility of our life, and of the poignant…