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The frustrating struggle for humility
Nov 10, 2019
It’s hard to be humble, not because we don’t have more than enough deficiencies to merit humility, but rather because there’s a crafty mechanism inside of us that normally doesn’t let us go to the place of humility.
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Stolen statues – and the need for ecological conversion
Nov 01, 2019
Last week, at least two conservative protesters crept into the Church of St Mary in Traspontina in Rome at dawn and stole wooden carvings of nude preg
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The grace within passivity
Nov 01, 2019
As Christians, we say that Jesus gave his life for us and that he gave his death for us, but we tend to think of this as one and the same thing. It’s not. Jesus gave his life for us through his activity; he gave his death for us through his passivity. These were two separate movements.
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The economy should serve the people
Oct 26, 2019
In 2013 the influential Atlantic website in a commentary Pope Francis’ Theory of Economics said the economist who most closely reflects the Bishop of Rome’s thinking was sociopolitical economist and anthropologist Karl Polanyi.
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Grieving as a spiritual exercise
Oct 26, 2019
A deep psychological scar is the same as having some part of your body permanently damaged in an accident. You will never be whole again and nothing c
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Land-grabbing displaces the poor
Oct 19, 2019
Scripture has so many passages about greed. Yet, these warnings often fall on deaf years.
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Race, religion – and the fire of greed
Oct 13, 2019
Of late, the politics of race and religion has resurfaced in Malaysia, as if gasping for air after being submerged by last year’s political tsunami.
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Creating and holding space for our brokenness
Oct 12, 2019
Some years ago I went on a weekend retreat given by a woman who made no secret about the fact that not being able to have children constituted a deep
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SOS — Save Our Seas
Oct 05, 2019
Rising sea levels will displace hundreds of millions of coastal residents from their homes by this century. If we don’t take action to curb emissions, the rise could be as much as 60- 110cm by 2100.
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Jesus Christ – the person and the mystery
Oct 05, 2019
We quite naturally tend to think of the word “Christ” as Jesus’ second name. We think of the name “Jesus Christ” like we think of names like “Susan Parker” or “Jack Smith”.
Sunday Reflection
Jesus did not turn away from His mission
Today, Palm or Passion Sunday, is the first day of Holy Week, the high point of the Church’s year, climaxing in the Easter Triduum: Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and the Easter Vigil on Holy Saturday.