July 2019

VATICAN (CNS): The need for the absolute secrecy of confession “comes directly from revealed divine law and has its roots in the very nature of the sacrament to the point that no exception whatsoever can be admitted in the ecclesial sphere and even less in the civil one,” a new Vatican document said. 
 
The “note of the Apostolic Penitentiary on the importance of the internal forum and the inviolability of the sacramental seal” was...

Luke Hunt
 
 
The annual United Nations report on the state of refugees around the globe reads more like an end-of-year corporate finance sheet. It’s just numbers and like a profit-and-loss account, the figures can be interpreted in many ways.
 
But the bottom line is that a record number of nearly 71 million people cannot live in their own homes. No matter how the figures stack up, Global Trends: Forced...

Noong nakaraang Kapistahan ng Banal na Santatlo ay nagkaroon ng binyagan at kumpilan ng mga Filipina dito sa Hong Kong.  Ang mga naturang tumanggap ng mga sakramento ay inihanda ng Chaplaincy for Filipinos.  Subalit hindi ito maisakakatuparan kung wala ang tulong ng mga boluntaryong katekista.  
 
Maituturing na isang tagumpay at bunga ito ng pagtitiyaga ng mga naturang tagapagturo ng pananampalataya.  Isang kapansin-pansin sa mga...

HONG KONG (SE): An international three-day seminar themed, Catholic Civil Aviation Chaplains and Pastoral Agents at the Service of Integral Human Development, organised by the Dicastery for Integral Human Development was held in Rome from June 10 to 13. 
 
There were around 80 participants from around the world, most of them representing United States and Europe. Only two of the Asian countries, Hong Kong and South Korea, had representatives in the seminar....