The Claretian Missionaries of Macau have organized “Mother’s Meal: Family to Family Support,” which aims to help the poor in Macau by distributing non-perishable food once a month until August 2021. The project also targets the needy in 65 poor…
BITE-SIZE THEOLOGY (95) – What’s the difference between secularity and secularism?
Rev José Mario O Mandíajmom.honlam.org Church and state have their respective fields of competence and enjoy autonomy with respect to each other. The autonomy of the state with respect to ecclesiastical laws is called “secularity.” Secularity avoids two extremes: (1)…
SISTER IVANTIC, 107, IS LIVING IN HER SECOND PANDEMIC
(CNS) For Benedictine Sister Vivian Ivantic, these times are not unprecedented. Sister Ivantic was born in 1913, five years before the Spanish flu pandemic that began in 1918. Now, the Chicago woman religious can add the novel coronavirus to the…
Bread for the journey… in hard times
Carlos M. Frota Angelus prayer time. 16th of August. Pope Francis prays for Lebanon, Belarus at Sunday Angelus. Pope Francis appeals for dialogue in negotiations regarding the Nile. In remarks made after the recitation of the Angelus on Sunday, Pope…
BELARUSIAN BISHOPS APPEAL FOR BLOCKED ARCHBISHOP’S SAFE RETURN
(CNA) The Catholic bishops of Belarus are calling for prayers that one of their archbishops, who was blocked from re-entering the country last week, be allowed to return home.
POLISH BISHOPS CONCERNED BY RISE IN ACTS OF DESECRATION
(CNA) Poland’s bishops expressed concern Saturday about a rise in acts of desecration. In a statement issued at the end of their plenary assembly Aug. 29, the bishops called for greater respect for religious sensibilities.
MISSIONARIES FROM MACAU TO THE WORLD – St Lazarus Island (15)
Joaquim Magalhães de Castro The unsuspected Diogo do Couto also looked at the historical trip to Cebu for a long time, and his account, inserted in his Decada Oitava da Asia, is, many times, coincident with that of the anonymous…
From invocation to use
Corrado Gnerre Statistics have recently been published on the use of drugs by young people. These are terrible figures. We are literally getting used to self-destruction. But what is happening? I am a mother and I cannot tell you what…
FORGIVENESS: THE FEAST OF GOD AND MAN
13 September 2020 – 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year AMatthew 18:21-35 Fernando Armellini SCJClaretian Publications The gospel opens with Peter’s question: “How many times must I forgive the offenses of my brother or sister? Seven times?” The answer…
MUSIC AND THE BRAIN – Brain for conductors (4)
Aurelio Porfiri ACHIEVEMENT Subtracting positive events This is another delicate point. How to manage achievement in performing groups? How to manage a successful concert, a good recording, the improvement in some peculiar and painful technical difficulties? Certainly to emphasize “positive…