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  • The best gift you can give Pope Francis, Praying with (and for) him

    Mar 25, 2024

    The Pope has an official “prayer network” that prays with him and promotes these intentions.

  • Pope Francis' eleventh year marred by sorrow over wars

    Mar 25, 2024

    Pope Francis' last twelve months have been marked by over 150 appeals for "martyred" Ukraine and more than 60 for a ceasefire in the Middle East, accompanied by invitations to the leaders of nations for "creative efforts" towards a just and lasting peace, all driven by the anguish of witnessing humanity’s “dark hour.”

  • 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.

  • Faith, art, and identity

    Mar 25, 2024

    Online Radio KekitaanFM recently hosted 26-year-old local artist Eva Robert, renowned for her painting of Mother Mary adorned in a traditional Sabah costume.

  • 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.

  • Catholic nuns empower distressed Nepali women

    Mar 25, 2024

    On a spring afternoon in early March, Usha Rokka took a break from sewing ladies’ handbags ordered by a customer to give snacks to her seven-year-old son who just returned from school.

  • The ‘privatisation’ of Jesus

    Mar 25, 2024

    The idea of God or Jesus as a personal saviour was, perhaps, reinforced during the revival movement or in ‘born again’ circles in recent decades.

  • The woman at the well

    Mar 25, 2024

    Like the Samaritan woman, Jesus touched me in the most painful place — in a young girl losing her mother, but He did it with tenderness and compassion. He got me ready. There in my most profound brokenness, I found and experienced God.

  • Forever ahead of our souls

    Mar 25, 2024

    Our souls eventually do catch up with us, but it would be good if we didn’t wait until we were in assisted living for this to happen.

  • The drama of prayer is the drama of the human heart

    Mar 25, 2024

    Prayer is a difficult path to follow in a fallen world and in the midst of a secular society. The odds are always against prayer. It requires a desirous heart to begin to pray, and a firm, well-formed heart to persevere in the life of prayer.