Focus
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Retrouvaille a lifeline for hurting marriages
Mar 07, 2019
The Retrouvaille weekend was held again in Kuala Lumpur following a successful 1st Retrouvaille that was held in January 2018.
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Retrouvaille helps couples in rocky marriages listen, talk, rebuild trust
Mar 07, 2019
Seven years ago, Jim and Jane were on their second marriage counsellor, and both were seriously considering divorce after almost 20 years as husband and wife.
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Pope leads bishops in abuse crisis examination of conscience - ‘What have I failed to do?’
Feb 27, 2019
Pope Francis on Feb 23 led the presidents of the world’s bishops’ conferences in a penitential liturgy and examination of conscience on their failures in handling abuse within the Catholic Church.
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Protection of Minors summit announces concrete commitments and initiatives
Feb 27, 2019
The Protection of Minors in the Church Meeting concluded with the announcement of concrete commitments and initiatives to protect children, and to com
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From Evasion to Conversion: How Pope Francis Sees the Sex-Abuse Crisis
Feb 12, 2019
Pope Lowers Expectations for Next Month’s Sex Abuse Summit — the Associated Press headline may not have been heart-lifting, but it was fair.
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A Dubai wall with 25,000 images of Jesus
Jan 19, 2019
While many would search online for wallpapers and images of Jesus Christ on special occasions like Christmas, this Indian expat has one of the largest collections of Christ’s images on the wall of his Dubai accommodation.
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East and West Malaysia encouraged to work together
Jan 18, 2019
One theme that became a centrepiece of discussions at the Malaysian Catholic Clergy Assembly, and one that has become more and more in focus even within the Conference, is the phenomenon of the movement of our Catholic people from Sarawak and Sabah to Peninsular Malaysia.
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Healthcare institutions are not to be run as a business, protect the person, not the profits
Jan 18, 2019
No to corporate mentality in Catholic health care facilities. No to treating life as “a private property”. No to the achievements of medicine and biotechnology that manipulate human existence.
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My top ten books in spirituality for 2019
Jan 12, 2019
This year I restricted myself to focusing only on books that dealt explicitly with spirituality, notwithstanding some very fine novels and books on social commentary that I read in 2018.
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Validating the experience of grief and the struggle with depression
Jan 12, 2019
This reflection is dedicated to my friends who are grieving and my patients who are suffering from depression.
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Sunday Reflection
Fourteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time: A disturbing challenge
The reading from Zechariah recalls and helps us understand a symbolic action Jesus used when he wanted to correct people's misunderstanding of his messiahship. It seems that the main image of a Messiah in the minds of Jesus’ contemporaries was modeled after King David.
