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Articles by Diogo Miguel Machado

About Diogo Miguel Machado

Diogo Miguel Machado is a native of Lisbon, Portugal. Currently, he lives in Rome, Italy where he is studying Theology at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross. Formerly, he was the Editor in Chief of Fundamentum, the academic theology journal of the Catholic University of Portugal in Lisbon. There, he also served as a staff member of the Political Studies Institute, which features the only Great Books program in Portugal. He is widely published in the Portuguese Catholic media.

Our Lady of Fatima, the culture of death, and signs of hope

May 15, 2016 Diogo Miguel Machado 0

On this last May 13th, Catholics all over Portugal celebrated the 99th anniversary of the apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima while others celebrated the approval of medically assisted procreation for lesbian couples and their […]

Europe, Evangelization, and Civilizational Suicide

December 28, 2015 Diogo Miguel Machado 0

Last month, the See of Lisbon reached the halfway point of its two-year-long Synod on a theme taken from Pope Francis’ Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation, Evangelii Gaudium. Centuries ago, ships departed from that port city in […]

Egoism and the Rise of Abortion-on-Demand

December 17, 2015 Diogo Miguel Machado 0

Last month, I awoke to the news that my home country had fallen into a state of emergency. To cut to the chase of this political drama, due to a complicated bureaucratic process, a coalition […]

ISIS at the Doors: Erasing the Memory of a Christian Europe

November 16, 2015 Diogo Miguel Machado 0

In the wake of last weekend’s terror attacks in Paris, Europe continues to fall deeper into her spiritual and cultural torpor. As I write these words, the continent is still absorbing the shocking news that […]