– Fr Leonard E Dollentas For more than 20 years, the divorce bill in the Philippines has repeatedly been proposed and discussed by the Philippine Congress, with no success. It has always been intensely opposed by the Catholic Church and…
SUNDAY MASS IN BAHASA INDONESIA TWICE A MONTH – Chapel of Saint Lawrence’s Church
Featured Image: Wikimedia Commons – Pedro Daniel Oliveira Started early this month, the chapel of Saint Lawrence’s Church is holding a Sunday Mass in Bahasa Indonesia, in order to keep the faith of the local Indonesian Catholics, since some have…
ENHANCING SILK ROAD’S RELIGIUS AND CULTURAL LEGACY – Macau Ricci Institute Annual Symposium in November
– Pedro Daniel Oliveira On November 22-23, the Macau Ricci Institute (MRI) is holding its annual symposium under the theme “Exploring The Silk Road Economic Belt and The 21st- Century Maritime Silk Road: The Challenge of Cross-Cultural Exchange and Communication.”
HUMANAE VITAE FIFTY YEARS HENCE (2) – Reactions
– Fausto Gomez OP As soon as the encyclical on the regulation of birth was issued by Pope Paul VI on July 25, 1968， contrary reactions from “liberal” priests and theologians in favor of contraception appeared in magazines and journals.…
FAITH ILLUSTRATED – Creed 07
Jesus Christ, Only Begotten Son of God (2)
FRAGMENTS (2)
– Vittorio Messori There is a figure among many that can help to understand the difference between the Mediterranean countries and Great Britain. In 1987 – two years after the appointment of Gorbachev as head of the Soviet Union and…
BITE-SIZE PHILOSOPHY (71) – Do animals gossip?
Free-Photos at Pixabay – Rev José Mario O Mandía A long time back, we spoke about the relationship between reality, knowledge and language (Bite-Size Philosophy 4). We feel the natural need, even when we were babies, to communicate. At that…
CHINESE EDITION OF MISSIONARIES IN MACAU TO BE LAUNCHED
On 10 July, at 6 PM, the launching of a new edition comprising three books of D Arquimínio da Costa, Fr Lancelote Rodrigues and Fr Mário Acquistapace in the Chinese language, missionaries who worked in Macau, will take place in…
THE RISK OF BEING HOMELESS – 8 JULY 2018, 14TH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME (B)
Ez 2:2-5; 2 Cor 12:7-10; Mk 6:1-6 – Fr Fernando Armellini SCJ Claretian Publications, Macau In Capernaum, Jesus expressed his admiration for the gesture of four men who brought down the roof of a house to introduce a paralytic (Mk…
GREAT FIGURES OF THE MISSIONARY WORK – Bengal and the Kingdom of the Dragon (11)
– Joaquim Magalhães de Castro The nearly fifteen million inhabitants of Dhaka are by themselves synonymous with a high probability of discontents, so that in the congested streets of this city it is common to cross with demonstrators of many…