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Living life to the full, reaching out to the peripheries

Jun 18, 2015

Before we focus on the Bishop of Rome’s new encylical on the ecology which is just out, it might be good to recall several key phrases from his Joy of the Gospel exhortation, released in November 2013.
A primal understanding of the Eucharist

Jun 17, 2015

Christian de Cherge, the Trappist Abbott who was martyred in Algeria in 1996, tells this story of his first communion.
1MDB a sign of changing role of government

Jun 10, 2015

Last week, many were engrossed with the events surrounding the Prime Minister’s no show at a “nothing-to-hide” forum at which he was supposed to explain what had happened to 1MDB, which is now laden with RM42bn worth of debt.
Inordinate attachments – moral flaw or struggle with divine energy?

Jun 05, 2015

The renowned spiritual writer, Henri Nouwen, made no secret about the fact that he was emotionally over-sensitive and that he suffered, sometimes to the point of clinical depression, from emotional obsessions
‘Field hospital’ — or serving the priorities of the middle class?

Jun 04, 2015

The Church is today called to reach out beyond the church walls or, as the Bishop of Rome exhorts us today, the Church needs to be like a field hospital.
Romero’s beatification marks watershed in journey towards Church of the Poor

May 28, 2015

The beatification of Oscar Romero on the eve of Pentecost is a watershed event for the Universal Church, though it has largely slipped under the radar in the media, perhaps because it took place in far-flung El Salvador.
Why did Romero have enemies at the Vatican?

May 26, 2015

In recognition of the forthcoming beatification this Saturday of the martyred Archbishop of San Salvador, Oscar Romero, the CTS has reissued Fr Ashley Beck’s booklet about him, first published in 2008.
Artificial light

May 22, 2015

What’s the use of an old-fashioned, hand-held lantern? Well, its light can be quite useful when it’s pitch-dark, but it becomes superfluous and unnoticeable in the noonday sun.
Appalling treatment of Rohingya and boat people is Asean’s shame

May 21, 2015

For too long, we have ignored the human trafficking going on in this region. Now the issue has exploded in the news with the boatloads of Rohingya arriving and many others having their boats heartlessly turned away.
Evolution’s ultimate wisdom

May 15, 2015

Evolution, Charles Darwin famously stated, works through the survival of the fittest.