Columns

  • Jesus’ demands are a loving invitation

    Sep 01, 2023

    St Paul in his epistle to the Corinthians (11:14), reminds us that Satan will appear as the “angel of light” to confuse even the most faithful soul.

  • Missionary dimension of catechesis

    Sep 01, 2023

    The aim of the present article is to examine more closely the relationship between evangelisation and catechesis. We do this to understand the missionary dimension of catechesis.

  • United, we stand as one

    Sep 01, 2023

    Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. For we were all baptised by one Spirit so as to form one body — whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. - 1 Corinthians 12:12-13

  • Unfinished relationships

    Sep 01, 2023

    At the moment of Jesus’ death, virtually all of his disciples had deserted. The timing here was also very bad. Good Friday was bad long before it was good.

  • The Simple Life

    Sep 01, 2023

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

  • Who do you say I am?

    Aug 25, 2023

    The way we answer Jesus has the potential to change our lives. If we acknowledge Jesus to be a divinely inspired teacher, then we will pay close attention to what He says so that we might believe it and live it.

  • Able and available

    Aug 25, 2023

    Each year on Vocation Sunday, and during novena prayers, we invoke the prayer for vocations. We ask God to touch the hearts and minds of young people to respond to the call of vocation to the priesthood or religious life.

  • Fear not the ‘green wave’: Build a nation where everyone has a place

    Aug 25, 2023

    Our nation is a blessed land. It has abundant fertile soil and conducive weather to grow food. It has plenty of sunshine, which can be turned into renewable energy, instead of relying on fossil fuels. Its waters are teeming with fish, which provides a source of natural protein.

  • Being the exception

    Aug 25, 2023

    We were not made to conform but be transformed to our true and amazing selves. The sooner we discover how exceptional we are, the sooner perhaps we learn to accept and celebrate the exceptions around us, the way Jesus did.

  • What will heaven be like?

    Aug 25, 2023

    Thus, we have something to learn from the biblical prophets, the mystics – and from the seemingly irreverent imagination of Andrew Greeley.