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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.