Focus

  • Holy Scripture desecrated yet again

    Dec 11, 2014

    The Bible Society of Malaysia is appalled and deeply saddened to discover that the 321 Bibles and 30 copies of We Gospel according to St. Luke that were seized from our premises in Petaling Jaya.

  • Self-sacrifice and the Eucharist

    Dec 11, 2014

    In 1996, Muslim extremists martyred nearly an entire community of Trappist monks in Atlas, Algeria.

  • Food for thought

    Dec 11, 2014

    The Virgin Mary has often been called “the woman of Advent.” One person who referred to her as such on Nov. 28, 2010 was then Pope, Benedict XVI.

  • A countercultural Advent message

    Dec 11, 2014

    A few years ago, Los AngelesArchbishop Jose H. Gomez described Advent as “a season of Mary”, and spoke of Advent as a time “to take Mary into our homes, into our lives.”

  • Bringing the ‘holy back’ to Christmas via Mary

    Dec 11, 2014

    The vision of an ideal Christmas generally includes “Silent Night” being softly sung around a manger scene. Snow is falling, family is gathered, and savoury smells are wafting from the kitchen.

  • We want unity, not assimilation or submission

    Dec 03, 2014

    Pope Francis stated unequivocally in Istanbul on November 30 that he, as Bishop of Rome, and the worldwide Catholic Church desire unity – ‘full communion’- with the 300 million member Orthodox Churches.

  • Pope Francis and the extraordinary global marriage conference

    Dec 03, 2014

    The Extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the Family stirred so much controversy over the issue of same sex marriage. Pope Francis boldly declared that marriage is a sacramental union of man and woman, and anything else is “an association.”

  • Two churches, two sacred places, two struggles

    Dec 03, 2014

    God has given us two churches, one is found everywhere and the other is found at select places. Some of us prefer one of these and struggle with the other, but both are sacred places where God can be found and worshipped.

  • Food for thought

    Dec 03, 2014

    While messages at this time of year shout of joy, shopping, baking, parties, and on and on, it’s hard to remember that Advent is a “mini-Lent,” as some call it.

  • Learning to wait amid Advent’s conversion

    Dec 03, 2014

    Is there a Catholic who doesn’t know the seasons of Advent and Lent? You would truly be the Catholic ostrich with a head firmly buried, to miss those two important times in our liturgical life.