Columns

  • The Simple Life

    May 05, 2023

    Created by Dr Steven Selvaraju, this is a comic strip that wishes to tell simple stories of life and faith.

  • After the Resurrection, what now?

    Apr 22, 2023

    At Easter, we celebrated Jesus’ triumph over Death with much joy.

  • He descended into hell

    Apr 22, 2023

    The Church points out to us that “The Apostles’ Creed confesses in the same article Christ’s descent into hell and His Resurrection from the dead on the third day, because in His Passover, it was precisely out of the depths of death that He made life spring forth.”

  • Struggling to give birth to hope

    Apr 22, 2023

    After Jesus rose from the dead, His first appearances were to women.

  • “Render unto Caesar”

    Apr 14, 2023

    Christianity and Malaysian politics have always had an interesting relationship. While on the one hand it is used to showcase tolerance and acceptance, especially when dealing with foreign, Christocentric countries, on the other, it is used as a bogeyman of sorts, casting shadows of aspersions behind both the Church and its members ? often painting Christians as having some nefarious agenda, as an enemy of Islam, and by extension, our predominantly Muslim Government and population.

  • Who turned out the lights?

    Apr 14, 2023

    Our God is all powerful but we each have pretty big crosses to bear. In a gist, embracing Christianity may sound easy for some but it can get tiresomely difficult. Worse still may be the Catholic guilt that is in our DNA.

  • Easter light

    Apr 14, 2023

    God’s response to the darkness of Good Friday was to say a second time, Let there be light! The resurrection of Jesus is that new light, one which at the end of the day eclipses all other lights.

  • Cool and uncompromised

    Apr 08, 2023

    The need for validation is the strongest it has ever been now, more than at any other time in human history. Blame it on the explosion of social media, and media sharing networks like Tik Tok and Instagram.

  • Leaving the past behind

    Apr 08, 2023

    The joy of the Risen Lord was felt on Palm Sunday when two developments took place in the Archdiocese of Kuala Lumpur.

  • Choosing our own storm

    Apr 08, 2023

    God is love, and love wants and needs both order and chaos. Love wants always to build a home, to settle down, to create a calm, stable and chaste place.