– Fr Leonard E. Dollentas I have had a lifelong curiosity about the Trappistine nuns. How do they managed to wake up so early in the morning and carried on to chant the psalms, and be still in tune? How…
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THEOLOGIAN PAUL THIGPEN TALKS ABOUT HIS BOOK SAINTS WHO BATTLED SATAN – “To continue to reject truthfulness, seems to me more the expression of a blind and irrational belief”
– Miguel Augusto In an interview granted to Aleteia in 2016, theologian and professor Paul Thigpen spoke about his book Saints Who Battled Satan, published in November 2015, which he considered to be a continuation of his bestselling Manual for…
CHURCH FATHERS (25) – Saint Hippolytus of Rome
We don’t know a lot about Saint Hippolytus of Rome’s (170-235) historical circumstances. He was a disciple of St Irenaeus and a friend of Origen. Probably he was a Bishop, but we don’t know much more about this fact.
BITE-SIZE PHILOSOPHY (76) – Is man religious by nature?
A relief showing Zeus and Leto with their offspring Apollo and Artemis to the right. 420-410 BCE. (Archaeological Museum of Brauron, Greece) – Rev José Mario O Mandía Man’s nature makes him a rational and a social being. Does it…
WHAT THE HUMAN EYES CANNOT SEE – 12 August 2018, 19TH Sunday In Ordinary Time (B)
1 Kgs 19:4-8, Eph 4:30-5:2, Jn 6:41-51 Edmond Lo www.FLL.cc Summer in Toronto is a beauty. Too bad it is so short. This summer of mine began with a 8-day cruise trip from Vancouver to Alaska, on which I was…
GREAT FIGURES OF THE MISSIONARY WORK – Bengal and the Kingdom of the Dragon (17)
– Joaquim Magalhães de Castro With an architecture similar to that of the world-famous Ellora caves, dating from the sixth or seventh century BC, the Hayagriv Madhava is one of the oldest centers of Vishnu worship. It is also considered…
COMMUNIST ARCHITECTURE AND CATHOLIC CHURCHES
Interior of the Novoslobodskaya subway station in Moscow. Photo by adorerussia.com. – Vittorio Messori Can Comrade Stalin come to mind by participating in a Mass? It happened to me: in a church of “architecture” (the name of this illustrious art…
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH FATHER JEAN-PIERRE CHARBONNIER MEP (1) – Christianity in China
– Aurelio Porfiri One of the reference books for those who want to know about the evolutions and involutions of Christianity in China is Christians in China, by Father Jean-Pierre Charbonnier MEP, also available in English from Ignatius Press. An…
MARIAN APPARITIONS (78) – Aparecida, Brazil
Brazil is the largest Roman Catholic country in the world. In October of 1717, Dom Pedro de Almedida, Count of Assumar, was on his way to the state of Minas Gerais from Sao Paulo. He would have to pass by…