– Rev José Mario O Mandía We often talk about mysteries and dogmas. What do we mean by “mystery”? And what do we mean by “dogma”? Let’s take up mysteries first. In ordinary language, a mystery is something that…
PIERCED AND CAGED – St Mark, Bishop and Confessor
St Mark was a priest in Syria during the reign of Constantine. He became the Bishop of Arethusa. There were many conversions to Christianity during this time. Mark undertook the challenge of transforming pagan temples into Christian churches. He suffered…
ORGAN TRANSPLANT AND DONATION (3) – Sale of organs
– FAUSTO GOMEZ OP One person may be a cadaver donor or a living donor of a bodily organ, of a kidney. One person can be a vendor of his organs, too. There is an international trade of organ trafficking…
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH FATHER JAMES JACKSON – Around the extraordinary form
– Aurelio Porfiri Part of the most precious heritage of our Catholic tradition, a living heritage, is the Tridentine Mass, which, after the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum, is now called the extraordinary form of the Roman rite. There are some…
CATHOLIC SCHOOLS AT THE SERVICE OF SOCIETY (V)
– Fr Leonard E Dollentas Last year in September Dr Astrid S. Tuminez, a Filipina was named as the 7th president of Utah Valley University (UVU), Utah’s largest public university. She is the first ever female to hold such post.…
CHURCH FATHERS (49) – Julius Firmicus Maternus
– Anastasios With Julius Firmicus Maternus we are dealing with a very interesting thinker, born in Sicily in the 4th century. According to the very scarce information we have about him, we may say that he was a man of…
CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND – Muslims and Christians, brothers in mourning
– Carlos M Frota A fortnight ago the world was deeply shocked by the attack against two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, during Friday prayers. Fifty innocent worshipers died and many more were wounded. And added to the tragedy itself,…
GREAT FIGURES OF THE MISSIONARY WORK – Bengal and the Kingdom of the Dragon (46)
– Joaquim Magalhães de Castro In Paro, Cacela and Cabral faced new difficulties. The man who accompanied them stole everything they had to feed themselves and lodged them in a very dark house where they stayed in a state of…
NEWS BRIEFS
– Tej Francis MONTREAL, CANADA ‘WE’RE IN A VERY DIFFERENT TIME NOW’: MONTREAL OFFICIALS OUST CRUCIFIX FROM CITY HALL (CNA) A crucifix that has hung on the wall of Montreal’s City Hall since 1937, reminding city officials to let…
MACAU CATHOLIC HERITAGE – The Church of Saint Joseph
– Maria Kwak Those who recognize the Chinese name of the Church of Saint Joseph may wonder its relationship to the Saint Paul’s. Known as 小三巴仔 in Chinese, it is literally translated as ‘small St Paul Temple’ in English. These…