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Mourning our barrenness
Mar 04, 2016
Several years ago, while teaching a summer course at Seattle University, I had, as one of my students, a woman who, while happily married, was unable
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Frank exchange of views at Christian-Muslim meeting
Mar 04, 2016
Penang Bishop Sebastian Francis led a delegation of priests and lay people to meet Penang Mufti Wan Salim Mohd Noor and his colleagues at the mufti’s
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God’s inexhaustibility
Feb 26, 2016
Many of us, I am sure, have been inspired by the movie, Of Gods and Men, which tells the story of a group of Trappist monks who, after making a painfu
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Discovering the names, stories and families of the strangers in our midst
Feb 26, 2016
So here we are in the Jubilee Year of Mercy. While most parishes have got the spiritual works of mercy well covered, complete with impressive doors of mercy, perhaps we need to look deeper at the corporal works of mercy.
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On reading difficult passages in scripture
Feb 19, 2016
The reading for that day’s liturgy was taken from Chapter 24 of the Second Book of Samuel where, seemingly, God gets upset with King David for counting the number of men he had for military service and then punishes him by sending a pestilence that kills seventy thousand people.
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Second Sunday of Lent: The Transfiguration – The Plan
Feb 19, 2016
Peter, James and John didn’t want this special touch of heaven, this transformation or transfiguration of the Lord, this visit by Moses and Elijah, none of this, they didn’t want any of it to end.
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Great wealth and the temptation of corruption
Feb 19, 2016
The other day, someone I know told me that while he was in downtown KL, he had bumped into a familiar person who had been implicated in a major corruption scandal.
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The kiss of God on the soul
Feb 05, 2016
We are infinite souls inside finite lives and that alone should be enough to explain our incessant and insatiable aching.
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Will the corrupt in Malaysia repent?
Feb 05, 2016
Just when we thought things could not possibly get worse, two bolts out of the blue have left us dumbfounded.
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What it means to speak truth to power
Jan 30, 2016
We may have come across the phrase “speak truth to power” at some point or another.



Sunday Reflection
Truth waits for us to come forth
In the context of the whole Easter season, the Scripture readings today come as a review for the final exam, much as a school teacher will conduct a revision before the final exam.