Our ancestors respected nature and lived in harmony with it!

The conservation of the dune-beach ecosystems is a most serious issue to be tackled.


As realidades da nossa identidade

Goa é ao mesmo tempo terra e estado de espírito. Enquanto cantamos os louvores à identidade goesa, urge reconhecer as novas realidades.


On my first blogiversary…

On my first blogiversary I thank you my readers and look forward to your company along new paths.


Vaz, Montfort and their self-consecrations

Marian dedication stands enriched by the singular contributions made by Joseph Vaz (Goa, 1651 – Sri Lanka, 1711) and Louis de Montfort (France, 1673 – France,…


The Curé of Ars: a Fool for Christ

St Jean-Baptiste Marie Vianney (1786-1859) was a modest priest who transformed Ars, a non-descript parish in France, into a spiritual hub, thanks to his…


A Última Conversa com Percival Noronha

Dedicou-se às matérias por que tinha propensão natural: a arte, a história e a astronomia.


What was the Inquisition? – 3

Much though it was a nasty webinar on the Goa Inquisition that acted as bait, the purpose of this three-part series has been to study the concept, origin and…


What was the Inquisition? – 2

Can our generation be sure that future generations will not be as uncharitable towards us as we have been vis-à-vis the Inquisition?


What was the Inquisition? – 1

It was a formal tribunal, not a people’s court; it had well established procedures, following contemporaneous standards of justice, however alien they may seem…