Focus

  • Parish and community rally to save Baby Evelyn

    May 26, 2023

    Baby Evelyn Mary Alex Santhana who successfully underwent an ABO-Incompatible Liver Transplantation procedure in New Delhi, safely returned with her parents on May 12.

  • Argentine diocese gets new priest after nine years

    May 26, 2023

    After nine years without priestly ordinations, the Diocese of Alto Valle de Río Negro in Argentina celebrated the ordination of Fr Alexis Oser (pic), May 1.

  • ‘The bishop is a pastor, not a manager’

    May 19, 2023

    In an interview with Vatican Media, the new prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops, Archbishop Robert Prevost, says, “We are often worried about teaching doctrine, but we risk forgetting that our first duty is to communicate the beauty and joy of knowing Jesus.”

  • Should children share their parents’ faith?

    May 12, 2023

    When the child reaches teenage or young adulthood, he or she has the choice to embark on their own spiritual and religious journey. Factors that influence their decisions in life are plentiful, and will probably not be attributed to their parents’ faith.

  • Why I pray the Rosary with my kids even though they don’t want to

    May 12, 2023

    When that day comes, you may be left so shaken that you cannot even find the words to voice a prayer to God. Your heart may cry out in agony, but your mind cannot give form to the words. The pain is too great to be voiced.

  • Gary feels most at home with the homeless

    May 05, 2023

    Humanitarian Dr Gary Liew is humbled to take the reins as the new director of the Archdiocesan Office for Human Development (AOHD) effective May 1, 2023.

  • Meteorologist’s prayer on live TV evokes “overwhelmingly positive” response

    May 05, 2023

    It was Friday, March 24, at nearly 11.00pm. WTVA’s chief meteorologist Matt Laubhan, was broadcasting a live weather forecast.

  • Encouraging his love for baking

    May 05, 2023

    Gerard Veerasingam Nicholas was in his element during the Our Lady of Fatima Family Day on April 15, selling delicious chocolate chip cookies, scones, and brownies that he and his friends baked. All items sold out quickly.

  • He was the ‘voice’ of the archdiocese

    May 05, 2023

    As a young boy in Sentul, I remember E. Samson as a familiar name and synonymous with audio visuals, broadcasting, music and stage plays at the Church of St Joseph.

  • What it’s like to be the Pope’s “voice”

    Apr 22, 2023

    In this digital age in which everyone is looking for someone to listen to them, the mission of announcing the Gospel is, to present mercy first and foremost by welcoming and listening, with closeness, embracing. These ideas are put forward by the editorial director of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Communication, Andrea Tornielli, in the following interview with Aleteia.