Focus
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No place like home
Mar 27, 2024
Mahfuz was just seven years old when he left home and started wandering the streets.
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Five takeaways from God's unfolding story of love
Mar 27, 2024
The story of God’s people is still being told, and we are now the chosen people. Your part and mine in this great story is crucial.
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I’m a Catholic priest who fasts for Ramadan
Mar 25, 2024
The hunger pains experienced are supposed to help the one fasting become more aware of those who go hungry without choice.
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When you give everything to God, He gives it back
Mar 25, 2024
Sparks fly, dropping bright glints of light around the piece of metal. A metal worker is fabricating his latest project. But with a clerical collar visible under his coveralls, this isn’t an ordinary welder doing the arc welding.
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What does it feel like being homeless?
Mar 15, 2024
Being homeless for a night was a heart-warming lesson in human fraternity among the last, the lost and the least. Participating in this Archdiocesan Office for Human Development (AOHD) Lenten Campaign with the Ministry of Poor, was a humbling experience for us 17 Catholics, who went to sleep on the
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‘The Mass Revealed’ teaches young people the parts of the Mass
Mar 15, 2024
Book ReviewThe difficult but necessary realisation that Western countries have become mission lands to the full, due to the advance of de-Christianisation everywhere, is beginning to make its way into the minds of Church leaders
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How to be a ‘synodal bishop’
Mar 10, 2024
Synodality is an issue that everyone in the church needs to understand and embrace, Cardinal Mario Grech, secretary-general of the Synod of Bishops, told an audience at the University of Notre Dame.
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Catholic digital leaders urge modern-day missionaries to learn the internet
Mar 10, 2024
When Francis Xavier reached India or Mother Cabrini arrived in the United States, neither believed they would make converts overnight.
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The hidden Christians
Mar 10, 2024
“The blood of martyrs is the seed of the Church.” - Tertullian, Early Church Father, 2nd century
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Understanding why terrorists attack worshippers in Burkina Faso
Mar 10, 2024
In Burkina Faso, the scourge of terrorist violence has once again reared its head, claiming lives across faith communities.
Sunday Reflection
From mere productivity to wholehearted fruitfulness
Reflecting on our Sunday Readings with the Editor