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Resisting the dominance of technology — and saving the planet

Jul 10, 2015

Peer into any restaurant or social setting. About a third of the people will be checking their smartphones, paying little attention to their surroundings, or even to the people near them.
The hero-complex

Jul 01, 2015

Several years ago, the movie Argo won the Academy award as the best movie of the year.
The mystical interconnectedness of all Creation

Jul 01, 2015

The title of a recent Guardian report stood out: “Pope Francis is a bit like Naomi Klein in a cassock.”
The best one can do in the circumstances

Jun 26, 2015

Recently, I led a week long retreat for some sixty people at a renewal center. Overall, it went very well, though ideally, it could have gone better.
Cry of the Earth: Francis’ radical encyclical on the environment a wake-up call

Jun 26, 2015

Our common home is falling into “serious disrepair” and “Sister Earth” weeps silently. We can see signs of climate change, environmental degradation, even social problems coupled with financial crises.
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.