At 11 am local time, the 16th of July 2018, at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Tamatsukuri Church) in Japan, Fr Josep Maria Abella Batlle, CMF and Fr. Paul Toshihiro Sakai of the Opus…
FRANCE, A VOCATIONAL DESERT
– Aldo Maria Valli In France the crisis of vocations is becoming increasingly evident. According to data provided by La Croix, the new ordinations for this year are 114, compared to 133 in 2017. Eighty-two of the new priests are…
FAITH EXPRESSED IN BEAUTY – Gen Verde in Macau — Take Two
Invited by the Macau SAR government in 2016, and by the Focolare Movement Community in Macau and Macau Diocesan Social Communications Centre this year, the International Performing Arts Group “Gen Verde” hosted a three-day workshop and an evening concert with…
UNIVERSITY OF SAINT JOSEPH RECTOR FR PETER STILWELL – Broadening the reach of higher education
– Pedro Daniel Oliveira A bachelor’s degree in Digital Cinema and a master’s in History and Heritage are two new courses that University of Saint Joseph is offering, its Rector Fr Peter Stilwell told O CLARIM. He also talked about…
HUMANAE VITAE FIFTY YEARS HENCE (4) – Regulation of births
Free-Photos at Pixabay – Fausto Gomes OP Through its fifty years of development (1968-2018) of the Encyclical Letter Humanae Vitae of Pope Paul VI, three themes continue on center stage: responsible parenthood and regulation of birth, overpopulation, and poverty. In…
HUMANAE VITAE FIFTY YEARS HENCE (3) – From Paul to Francis
FAUSTO GOMEZ OP I read once more Blessed Paul VI Encyclical Letter Humane Vitae (1968) in June 2018. Thereafter, I re-visited its doctrinal development through its fifty years of existence. Clearly, the Magisterium of the Church re-reads, interprets, renews and…
GAY IN THE PEW – How the Church is Reaching out to the LGBT Catholics
Fr Leonard E Dollentas “If someone is gay and searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?” These words of Pope Francis have gone viral and sent shockwaves throughout the Catholic Church and the world…
ARTIST AND WRITER ANTÓNIO CONCEIÇÃO JÚNIOR ON THE VISIONARY AFONSO DE ALBUQUERQUE – A crusader out of time
Pedro Daniel Oliveira Artist and Writer António Conceição Júnior delivered a talk on Afonso de Albuquerque – Rumo ao Apogeu Militar dos Descobrimentos (Afonso de Albuquerque – Towards the Military Apogee of the Portuguese Discoveries), at Rui Cunha Foundation, on…
BEAUTY THAT UPLIFTS – In what sense is sacred music pastoral?
Aurelio Porfiri I used to read, many years ago, an American magazine called Pastoral Music, published by the National Association of Pastoral Musicians (NPM). In recent years, mulled over this theme of the pastoral value of music, of how…
APOLOGIA (23) – Was Jesus the only Son of Mary?
Anastasios Objection 1: In the New Testament we have several evidences that Jesus has brothers (and sisters): “Is he not the carpenter’s son? Is not his mother named Mary and his brothers James, Joseph, Simon, and Judas?” (Mt 13,55); “‘Is…