We live in a period when it has become possible for people to communicate with one another instantly, no matter the distance. People can exchange ideas and experiences, thoughts and feelings, wherever they are. They can engage in dialogue and…
VATICAN CITY - Every year on the Sunday before Pentecost the Church marks World Communications Day to celebrate the achievements of the media and to focus of how communications can best be used to promote gospel values. In the lead-up…
VATICAN CITY - The new Statute for the Vatican’s Dicastery for Laity, Family, and Life was published by the Vatican on 8 May 2018. The new Dicastery for Laity, Family, and Life was instituted by Pope Francis on 15 Aug 2016 with…
KOTA KINABALU - Veteran choir master of the Sacred Heart Cathedral here was called to eternal life on 3 May 2018. He was 95. Francis Lee Yit Khee served as choir master of the cathedral from 1960 to 1987. Aside…
KENINGAU - Papal nuncio Archbishop Joseph Marino summarised Pope Francis' apostolic exhortation on the call to holiness on 4 May 2018 at the celebration of Keningau silver jubilee here. The talk was given at the newly completed Immanuel Catechetical Building…
PENAMPANG - Keningau celebrated its diocesan silver jubilee with a deep sense of gratitude and joy to God on 4-5 May 2018. The culmination of a yearlong preparation was the concelebrated Eucharist at the Solidarity Hall on May 5. Over…
MEXICO CITY - Esmeralda Solís Gonzáles is a young Mexican woman who was crowned last year as a beauty queen in her native town – and now she's joined the Poor Clare Missionaries of the Blessed Sacrament. Twenty-year old Gonzáles…
In a recent US Catholic survey, eighty percent of those questioned said that music at Mass was very important to them. However, only thirteen percent were totally satisfied with the music that they have and actually sing. The music at Mass is…
ALBANO, Italy - The first superior of the Daughters of St Paul community was called to eternal life on 29 Apr 2018 at the San Raffaele wing of the community here. She was 88. Born on 16 Apr 1930 in…
KOTA KINABALU - The KK Archdiocese organised a pre-PAX gathering, the first of its kind in its history, on 1 May 2018 at the Sacred Heart Parish Centre here. Organised by the Archdiocesan Pastoral Council, the objective of the gathering…