Focus
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Our gaze upon this city
Jun 05, 2014
Jesus, it seems, had mixed feelings towards the world. He loved the world, laid down his life for it, and challenged us to love the world, even as he criticized it harshly and stated clearly that it was opposed to him.
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Catholic Church celebrates its’ birthday on Pentecost Sunday
Jun 05, 2014
The Catholic Church celebrates its birthday on Pentecost Sunday
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Pentecost marks ‘life-changing power of God’s presence’
Jun 05, 2014
The church’s celebration of Pentecost highlights the “life-changing power of God’s presence” believers receive through the Holy Spirit, said Washington Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl.
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Fr Peter Bretaudeau returns to France
May 29, 2014
Fr Peter Bretaudeau, MEP who served for 57 yearts in Malaysia has decided to go back to France to continue his missionary life among the French people.
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Vatican concerned over increasing Asian priests in West
May 29, 2014
A Vatican official has expressed concern over the increasing number of priests from Asian and African dioceses working in Western dioceses, while their own native dioceses were still short of priests.
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Augustin Bea: Scholar, teacher, cardinal
May 29, 2014
Augustin Bea was one of the most impressive and influential Jesuits that the Society has produced in the 200-year history of the order since its restoration by Pope Pius VII in 1814.
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Dag Hammarskjold on sexuality and desire
May 29, 2014
The lusts of the flesh reveal the loneliness of the soul.
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Food for Thought
May 23, 2014
An often-heard question in the church asks what Catholics want from their parishes. Naturally, people are not carbon copies of each other in all their wants and needs.
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Believing is belonging: The parish
May 23, 2014
When people think of church they usually mean a parish and not the diocese or the universal church. It is in parishes where Christianity is lived on a daily basis or, as some pastors like to say, “where the rubber meets the road”.
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Parishes: Places to be known by name
May 23, 2014
My wife and I participate in the same parish community today that we joined 41 years ago.



Sunday Reflection
God is not like us
God is beyond us. That is what the readings point to this weekend. The fact that God is a mystery and beyond our thinking is not something that should frustrate or disappoint us but, rather, it should be a source of our hope and the ground that we walk on as Christians.
