– Aurelio Porfiri There is a book by a well known Italian scholar, Eugenio Capozzi, called Politicamente corretto. Storia di un’ideologia (Politically correct. History of an ideology, Marsilio 2018) that is really worth reading – a book that takes us…
– Joaquim Magalhães de Castro The title of the publication of the magazine Kailash, Journal of Himalayan Studies, “Letter from the First Westerner to Bhutan, Tibet, Nepal, Joao Cabral (1559-1699),” is misleading because it omits Cacela’s performance. Let us not…
– Tej Francis ROME, ITALY POPE FRANCIS: ABUSE REVELATIONS ARE PURIFYING THE CHURCH (CNA) God is purifying his Church through the painful revelations of the abuse scandals, so do not be discouraged, Pope Francis said Thursday in a meeting with…
One Hundred Years ago, Pope Benedict XV called for the missionary activity of the Church to be carried out in future by missionaries from the very countries and cultures being evangelised. This was welcomed by many and resisted by some,…
– Marco Carvalho It was one of the many consequences of the destruction unleashed by typhoon Hato in August 2017. Almost two years later, it still is one of the few that has never been addressed. Two years ago, the…
H.E. Bishop Stephen Lee blesses the people with the Relic of the Lignum Crucis (a piece from the Wooden Cross of our Lord). Photo by Ivan Leong. The Procession of Our Lord carrying the cross – Bom Jesus dos Passos…
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Diversity of ministry, unity of mission
Theodoret of Cyrus (393-458) was from an illustrious family in Antioch. His teacher was Theodore of Mopsuestia and one of his classmates was the controversial Nestorius. He would study rhetoric with Saint John Chrysostom. As a young person he followed…
– José Mario O Mandía On 30 September 1943, Pope Pius XII issued the Encyclical “Divino afflante Spiritu” (“Inspired by the Holy Spirit”) which welcomed the use of textual criticism to examine not only the contents of the Bible but…