From re-definition to re-calibration, the poems in this book are artifacts to the early and mid-days of the pandemic. Though not specifically labeled as “Covid poems,” they strike to the heart of the universal yet individual struggles of solitude, confinement, justice, isolation and, ultimately, self-reckoning. The poems push and pull between the constantly knocking global […]
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Book |Quarantine Highway| by Millicent Borges Accardi – Editor’s Note
Posted on 16 October 2022.
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Opinion|Fatima October miracle | Fact or fiction? – by Len Port
Posted on 12 October 2022.
A crowd, said to have numbered as many as 70,000, witnessed the so-called Miracle of the Sun above the village of Fatima in central Portugal on 13th October 1917. But was it really a divine miracle, or is it all a bizarre myth? The event occurred during the First World War and just a few years […]
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Book | In America, I Discovered I Was European| by Natália Correia (1923-1993) – Editor’s Note
Posted on 07 October 2022.
Natália Correia lived one of the most productive and flamboyant lives in the history of Portuguese culture. In June 1950―a month bracketed by Senator Margaret Chase Smith’s denunciation of McCarthyism and the outbreak of the Korean conflict―Correia made her first visit to the United States. Moving from Boston, coastal Maine, and New Bedford, Massachusetts, to […]
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Community: PALCUS 24th Annual Leadership Awards Gala – Washington, D.C.
Posted on 02 October 2022.
The Portuguese American Leadership Council of the United States (PALCUS) is celebrating the 24th Annual PALCUS Leadership Awards Gala with a program of cultural and social events. This year’s festivities will take place in Washington, D.C., October 7-9, during Columbus Day weekend. The weekend-long celebration will include a reception and awards ceremony, brunch cruise, and […]
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Opinion | Catholics shocked by sexual abuse revelations – by Len Port
Posted on 01 October 2022.
With the approach of the 105th anniversary of The Miracle of the Sun at Fatima in central Portugal, Catholics have been shocked by yet another revelation about the sexual abuse of children within the church. The Vatican has at long last acknowledged that in 2020 a Nobel Peace Prize-winning Catholic bishop received “disciplinary restrictions” and was […]
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Community: President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa visiting California – Portugal
Posted on 23 September 2022.
The President of Portugal, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, is visiting California, from September 23 to 29, at the invitation of the resident Portuguese American community, where he will participate in several community events. Although no official program is available, his itinerary will include stops in San Diego, Artesia, Turlock, Gustine, San Jose and San Francisco, […]
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