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The power of a compliment
Aug 23, 2018
Thomas Aquinas once suggested that it’s a sin to not give a compliment to someone when it’s deserved because, by withholding our praise, we’re depriving that person of the food that he or she needs to live on. He’s right. Perhaps it’s not a sin to withhold a compliment but it’s a sad impoverishment, both for the person deserving the compliment and for the one withholding it.
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Strengthening social solidarity to ease the public burden
Aug 16, 2018
In the new Malaysia, there are a few things we can do to immediately raise the quality of life for the lower-income group. The first step has already
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Why I believe in God
Aug 16, 2018
Some of my favourite authors are agnostics, men and women who face life honestly and courageously without faith in a personal God.
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A third national car and new mega highways could have dire consequences
Aug 09, 2018
New research findings have revealed that global warming in the future may be twice what climate models have projected while sea levels could rise over six metres, even if we manage to contain temperature rises below the target.
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Standing on new borders
Aug 09, 2018
A particularly powerful Gospel story recounts Jesus meeting with a Syro-Phoenician woman. Central to that story is where their encounter takes place.
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To the friends I’ve known
Aug 01, 2018
Recently, reading Commonweal magazine, I was struck by this line by Jerry Ryan, a Little Brother of Jesus: “I have lost contact with so many people who meant a lot to me at different stages of my life, people I loved dearly and really cared for and who had given me so much and made me what I am.”
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After 50 years, it’s finally time to consider the wisdom of ‘Humanae Vitae’
Jul 30, 2018
On July 25, 1968 – in the midst of the “sexual revolution” which aggressively promoted premarital sex, pornography, homosexual activity and artificial contraception – Pope Paul VI with the courage of a prophet gave the Catholic Church and world an entirely different message.
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A slur that cuts deep
Jul 26, 2018
He’s a loser! You’re a loser! Among all the hurtful slurs we mindlessly utter, this particular one is, perhaps, the most hurtful and damaging. It needs to be forbidden in our public discourse and stricken from our vocabulary.
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As Romero approaches canonisation, his legacy lives on
Jul 26, 2018
When I first saw the video on WhatsApp of a bishop speaking in a church about extrajudicial killings in the Philippines with such obvious courage, the first thing that ran through my mind is “Oscar Romero lives again,” this time not in El Salvador but in Asia.
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Sunday Reflection
Trusting God ’s promises, preparing our hearts, and looking beyond the noise
Reflecting on our Sunday Readings with Fr Dr Lawrence Ng
