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  • Be generative, as your Father is generative

    Apr 25, 2025

    Reflecting on our Sunday Readings with Fr Dr Lawrence Ng

  • The unnecessary burden of proving one’s personhood

    Apr 25, 2025

    It’s a disheartening ritual, one I've personally come to dread. Time and again, I find myself needing to remind audiences, participants in workshops, or during conferences and seminars that individuals living with dementia are, fundamentally, human.

  • Welcoming all God’s children: dispelling misconceptions about Autism

    Apr 25, 2025

    The Church is a home for all of God’s children. Yet, for many autistic individuals and their families, attending Mass or participating in community events can be a challenge — often not due to a lack of faith, but because of misunderstandings that create unintentional barriers to inclusion.

  • On loving God

    Apr 25, 2025

    This season of Good Friday and Easter, or Resurrection Sunday, celebrations allow us, as the disciples of Jesus Christ, to commemorate and to bring to our remembrance once again the death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ.

  • UNESCO, I go again

    Apr 25, 2025

    Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.

  • The Resurrection: The ultimate meta-narrative

    Apr 25, 2025

    The resurrection of Jesus assures us that, as Julian of Norwich affirms, in the end, all will be well, and all will be well, and every manner of being will be well.

  • ‘The Gospel of Life’ – needed now more than ever!

    Apr 25, 2025

    This year marks the 30th anniversary of one of the most powerfully prophetic social justice and peace encyclicals ever written: Evangelium Vitae (The Gospel of Life).

  • Finishing unfinished business

    Apr 18, 2025

    Reflecting on our Sunday Readings with Fr Michael Chua

  • The role of the sponsor in the RCIA

    Apr 18, 2025

    In general, the term ‘sponsor’ refers to an individual or group that supports and accompanies others or speaks on their behalf. In the RCIA, a sponsor is the person who comes forward to accompany and support the candidate who is seeking initiation into the Catholic Church.

  • ‘Your headline lacks charity’

    Apr 18, 2025

    The offending headline was my attentiongrabbing, dramatic one-liner: “Bury the brain dead, says expert.” Yes, you read it right — “brain dead” as in patients occupying critical care unit beds.