(Vatican News) The World Day of the Poor was instituted in 2016 by Pope Francis and is celebrated annually on the 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time.
PASTORAL CARE FOR FILIPINO MIGRANTS’ COMMISSION ON SOCIAL ACTION – Center continues assisting displaced workers
Danilo Perez Ngo The outreach program of the Commission on Social Action of the Pastoral Center for Filipino Migrants located at Francisco Antonio St. No. 48-58, Macau continues to distribute supplies of grocery items to migrant workers who have permanently…
BITE-SIZE THEOLOGY (104) – Is hell a scare tactic?
Rev José Mario O Mandíajmom.honlam.org Is hell for real? Should we still believe in it? Yes. As long as a man is free, hell is a possibility. But if we are to understand what hell is, we need to understand…
FORMED BY RELIGIOUS ROOTS AND TRAGEDY – “Catholic social doctrine taught me that faith without works is dead”
Robaird O’CearbhaillHong Kong Correspondent Joe Biden recovered from terrible family tragedies twice. Only days into being elected into the US Senate, his wife and daughter were killed and sons seriously injured. While in Washington setting up his office his family…
MONEY AND RELIGION
Aurelio Porfiri In recent months, I published a book that I co-wrote with Professor Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, a banker and economist and former president of the IOR (Istituto per le Opere di Religione), what is commonly known as the “Vatican…
Cowardice Misconceived as Prudence
15 November 2020 – 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year AMathew 25:14-30 Fernando Armellini SCJClaretian Publications, Macau The talents do not indicate the qualities that every man has received from God. Verse 15 where the talents are delivered “to…
Nice: martyrs of a new era
Carlos M. Frota Hatred is never the answer! Dialogue is always possible, mutual understanding the only way forward. And the real challenge for political and religious leaders alike is how to insist more and more on a message of fraternity…
SAN NICOLA IN CARCERE – From Roman to Christian temple
Anastasios The church of San Nicola in Carcere (“carcere” means prison), was built on an area where there were temples transformed into prisons during medieval times. Some remains of these buildings are still visible in the church and in the…
POPE FRANCIS OFFERS MASS FOR SOULS OF 169 DECEASED BISHOPS, CARDINALS
(CNA) Pope Francis encouraged Catholics to pray for the dead and remember Christ’s promise of the resurrection at a Mass offered Thursday for the souls of cardinals and bishops who died in the past year.
FATHER JOÃO LOURENÇO, PROFESSOR EMERITUS AT THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF PORTUGAL – “It is not possible to understand the true message of Christ in an abstract way”
Marco Carvalho It’s called The Time of Jesus – The World and the Jewish Institutions. It was launched in late October and proposes a vast and comprehensive approach to the historical figure of Jesus Christ, through the analysis of the…