WIS 18:6-9; HEB 11:1-2, 8-19; LK 12:32-48 – Edmond Lo www.FLL.cc In this age of atheism and materialism, many people see faith as essentially an interior attitude that is subjective, imaginative, and psychological. It is, in a word, objectively unreal…
Edith Stein, today’s saint’s given name, was a highly cultured European intellectual. She obtained a doctorate in philosophy summa cum laude from a German university after being accepted as a student by a renowned philosopher. She mastered numerous languages and…
– Anastasios A great defender of Catholic orthodoxy was Saint Maximus the Confessor (579/80-662). He was born in Constantinople from a rich family. And even if he was very well regarded since his youth by the emperor himself, he was…
– Aurelio Porfiri We were able in the previous issue to identify Luigi Antinori from Nocera with the Luigi Antinori that was active in Macau. Do we have conclusive evidence for this? Not really, but the documents that we were…
– Joaquim Magalhães de Castro Estêvão Cacela traces us a portrait of the Bhutanese, presenting them as white people, “although the little cleanliness with which they are treated makes them not look so much.” Their hair is long, covering the…
– Tej Francis ROME POPE EMERITUS BENEDICT XVI VISITS PAPAL SUMMER RESIDENCE NEAR ROME (Vatican news) He passed many a summer evening in the quiet and relative cool of the gardens behind the papal residence at Castel Gandolfo during his…
– Marco Carvalho The vocation to become of service to God was felt very early in his life, but it was only in the post-War years that Yves Camus realized that the Society of Jesus was the right path for…
– ROBAIRD O’CEARBHAILL Hong Kong Correspondent Nicholas Bodnar-Horvath lives comfortably from a successful legal practice but does not let that go to his head. From his Catholic roots and parents he insists that you “Treat people as you would like to…
– Miguel Augusto (*) The universal Church celebrates tomorrow, the 10th of August, the liturgical feast of St Lawrence, a martyr deacon of 3rd century Christianity. In Macau, the celebrations will be held at the St Lawrence Church, with everything…
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