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- 930 - Homilies: Fifth Sunday of Easter (B) Apr. 28, 2024
In the Acts of the Apostles, Saul shows what love calls for. He continues to proclaim the fact that he has met the Lord though no one trusts him and some even want to kill him. That is the basic vocation to which all followers of Jesus are called.
Sat, 27 Apr 2024 - 06min - 929 - UCA News Weekly Summary, April 26, 2024
Asian nations continue to trample human rights by muzzling freedom of speech and shrinking civic spaces, says the annual human rights report from the US State Department. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
Fri, 26 Apr 2024 - 12min - 928 - Homilies: Fourth Sunday of Easter (B) Apr. 21, 2024
Jesus announces himself not merely as a shepherd, but as the Good Shepherd. He is the one shepherd we can trust because he is the one shepherd who is not a sheep himself.
Sat, 20 Apr 2024 - 06min - 927 - UCA News Weekly Summary, April 19, 2024
As Indians brace for national elections, the ruling Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party is accused of using draconian laws to curtail civic freedoms. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
Fri, 19 Apr 2024 - 12min - 926 - Homilies: Third Sunday of Easter (B) Apr. 14, 2024
Let's face it — the Resurrection is unbelievable. Even seeing the risen Lord is not going to convince us otherwise. It's easier to believe in ghosts or to doubt one's own sanity.
Sat, 13 Apr 2024 - 06min - 925 - UCA News Weekly Summary, April 12, 2024
A top Vatican official is on a six-day visit to Vietnam to strengthen diplomatic ties with the communist-ruled nation. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
Fri, 12 Apr 2024 - 13min - 924 - Homilies: Second Sunday of Easter (B) Apr. 7, 2024
Living a Christian life takes courage. However, we need not search for it. We have it. Each Sunday when we join the community of disciples we take the greatest risk, that of meeting the Lord.
Sat, 6 Apr 2024 - 06min - 923 - UCA News Weekly Summary, April 5, 2024
Catholic Church in Taiwan has pledged help to the victims after the strongest earthquake in decades left nine dead, over 800 injured and damaged dozens of buildings. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
Fri, 5 Apr 2024 - 12min - 922 - Homilies: Easter Sunday (B) Mar. 31, 2024
On Easter we celebrate on behalf of all the world God's love that embraces all the world. We celebrate for that boy, for all the dead and for ourselves, the living who are promised a share in the life of Christ who rose.
Sat, 30 Mar 2024 - 06min - 921 - Homilies: Good Friday Mar. 29, 2024
Today is also a day of commitment to be a sign of God's love. God felt it worthwhile for Jesus to die in order that I might know love. My life is worth giving in the day-to-day as well as, if necessary, in death so that others may know that love.
Fri, 29 Mar 2024 - 05min - 920 - Homilies: Holy Thursday Mar. 28, 2024
Our sharing Eucharist is a service -- a service to the world. We can wash its feet, and we can bring it with us as we share union with Christ. It's all one and the same.
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 - 06min - 919 - Homilies: Palm or Passion Sunday (B) Mar. 24, 2024
We mark this Holy Week with solemn joy. Death is real. But this week we know that love is even more real.
Sat, 23 Mar 2024 - 06min - 918 - UCA News Weekly Summary, March 22, 2024
In conflict-torn Myanmar, political fighting crossed religious lines when a Christian pastor was shot dead by three unknown attackers in Kachin state this week. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
Fri, 22 Mar 2024 - 12min - 917 - Homilies: Fifth Sunday of Lent (B) Mar. 17, 2024
John "lets the beans out of the bag" by telling us that Jesus is actually talking about the way he will die, lifted up from the earth on a cross. Do I really want to be drawn to him there?
Sat, 16 Mar 2024 - 06min - 916 - UCA News Weekly Summary, March 15, 2024
International experts and organizations have expressed concerns over freedom of religion in Hong Kong after the authorities introduced a new security law stipulating tough penalties. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
Fri, 15 Mar 2024 - 11min - 915 - Homilies: Fourth Sunday of Lent (B) Mar. 10, 2024
Lent is the season when we prepare to renew our baptismal commitment in solidarity with those being baptized at Easter. It is a time of preparation to re-dedicate ourselves to proclaiming to the world the good news that God indeed loves us now, here, as we really are.
Sat, 9 Mar 2024 - 06min - 914 - UCA News Weekly Summary, March 8, 2024
Indian nuns and priests join women activists to demand end of crimes against women and ensure their rights and empowerment ahead of the national election in May. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
Fri, 8 Mar 2024 - 13min - 913 - Homilies: Third Sunday of Lent (B) Mar. 3, 2024
Mid-way to our celebration of the Cross and Easter, we reflect on how we are like the animals, tables and vendors in the temple, interfering with others' finding the Lord. As individuals and as a community, we must repent. But, we are called to more than guilt feelings.
Sat, 2 Mar 2024 - 06min - 912 - UCA News Weekly Summary, March 1, 2024
A Filipino Catholic laywoman who quit her job to become a full-time volunteer catechist is slated for sainthood. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
Fri, 1 Mar 2024 - 12min - 911 - Homilies: Second Sunday of Lent (B) Feb. 25, 2024
Today's Gospel is a Lenten reminder that the gift of being a beloved child of God that I received in Baptism leads to my own transfiguration. I walk the way of the Cross in this world, but it is a way that leads to incomparable glory.
Sat, 24 Feb 2024 - 06min - 910 - UCA News Weekly Summary, February 23, 2024
Minority Christians in India continue to face threats and harassment as hardline Hindu groups push for a Hindu-centric cultural and religious nationalism. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
Fri, 23 Feb 2024 - 12min - 909 - Homilies: First Sunday of Lent (B) Feb. 18, 2024
The Lord calls us to a change of life, a change we exercise in some small way in Lent as a means of recommitting ourselves at Easter to the big reform we accepted in our baptismal commitment.
Sat, 17 Feb 2024 - 06min - 908 - UCA News Weekly Summary, February 16, 2024
One person died and 53 were injured when part of the second floor of a Catholic church collapsed during a packed Ash Wednesday Mass in the Philippines. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
Fri, 16 Feb 2024 - 11min - 907 - Homilies: Ash Wednesday Feb. 14, 2024
Welcome to Lent, a time to reflect on our ashiness and our salvation. From now till the start of the Sacred Triduum we will remember that we are Cinderella sitting in sin.
Tue, 13 Feb 2024 - 06min - 906 - Homilies: Sixth Sunday of the Year (B) Feb. 11, 2024
We followers of Jesus are called to be supernatural. In other words, we must be people noteworthy for our willingness to go beyond the natural in us. That means developing the ability to look upon others as the sons and daughters of God, our brothers and sisters.
Sat, 10 Feb 2024 - 06min - 905 - UCA News Weekly Summary, February 9, 2024
An airstrike on a school in Myanmar’s Demoso township in Kayah state killed four children, all boys aged 12 to 14, and injured at least 15 other children. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
Fri, 9 Feb 2024 - 13min - 904 - Homilies: Fifth Sunday of the Year (B) Feb. 4, 2024
Like Jesus, we must be ready and willing to leave our prayer for those who seek us out. Like Peter's mother-in-law, our encounter with God must get us back to normal stuff.
Sat, 3 Feb 2024 - 05min - 903 - UCA News Weekly Summary, February 2, 2024
Catholics in China welcomed three new bishops who were ordained with the approval of the Vatican and the communist government within a week. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
Fri, 2 Feb 2024 - 13min - 902 - Homilies: Fourth Sunday of the Year (B) Jan. 28, 2024
The first step in repentance is to admit our guilt, as when we go to confession. We admit our faults and failures out loud, making them painfully and embarrassingly real to ourselves. Then, we are presented with the sin-overpowering love of God when we most recognize our need of it.
Sat, 27 Jan 2024 - 05min - 901 - UCA News Weekly Summary, January 26, 2024
Asian countries are among top persecutors of Christians, says a report from US-based Christian rights group, Open Doors. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
Fri, 26 Jan 2024 - 11min - 900 - Homilies: Third Sunday of the Year (B) Jan. 21, 2024
The clearest presence of the reign is Jesus, God's reign made flesh. "The time of fulfillment has come" is another way of saying, "Here I am!"
Sat, 20 Jan 2024 - 05min - 899 - UCA News Weekly Summary, January 19, 2024
Taiwanese defied threats of punishment from Beijing and elected pro-sovereignty candidate Lai Ching-te as their new president. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
Fri, 19 Jan 2024 - 12min - 898 - Observations: Our unqualified, incompetent savior
Some of Pope Francis’ pastoral moves, for example his making provision for the blessing of couples in irregular situations and same-sex couples, have drawn criticism and opposition from those who see this as deviation from precedent. However, the pope may actually be following the deeper precedent of Jesus. Father William Grimm shares some thoughts on this.
Wed, 17 Jan 2024 - 06min - 897 - Homilies: Second Sunday of the Year (B) Jan. 14, 2024
When the disciples went with Jesus, they entered into a path of healing, forgiveness, and liberation for others. Such lives will lead us to what it is, whom it is, we are seeking.
Sat, 13 Jan 2024 - 05min - 896 - UCA News Weekly Summary, January 12, 2024
Christians in conflict-torn Myanmar paid their last respects to 17 ethnic Chin Christians killed in a military airstrike. Listen to the story and more in this wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
Fri, 12 Jan 2024 - 12min - 895 - Homilies: Epiphany (B) Jan. 7, 2024
We are called to be Stars of Bethlehem, leading men and women to Christ. The chief vocation of the Church is to proclaim the Good News to all nations. How do I share in that great vocation?
Sat, 6 Jan 2024 - 06min - 894 - UCA News Weekly Summary, January 5, 2024
Pope Francis prayed for the victims of a deadly earthquake that hit Japan on New Year’s Day. Listen to this story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
Fri, 5 Jan 2024 - 12min - 893 - Homilies: Mary Mother of God Jan. 1, 2024
Each of us is presented with the same vocation as Mary. God says to you and to me, "Make my Son present in the world. Forgive sins. Bring healing. Live with faith that my love is stronger than your death. By word and deed, assure the world of my love."
Mon, 1 Jan 2024 - 05min - 892 - Homilies: Holy Family (B) Dec. 31, 2023
If there were no answer to our search and longing, then, indeed, our lives would be futile. What use is there for a hunger that cannot be filled? What sense can there be to an existence defined in part by something that is meaningless?
Sat, 30 Dec 2023 - 06min - 891 - Homilies: Christmas Day Dec. 25, 2023
Today we remember and celebrate the fact that we can know God's glory and power not as some sort of information, but as a person. So, on Christmas Day we move from the story to the program, from what happened long ago to our vocation today.
Mon, 25 Dec 2023 - 05min - 890 - Homilies: Fourth Sunday of Advent (B) Dec. 24, 2023
God doesn't choose the way we would. God chooses worldly weakness to proclaim divine power. That's the reason Mary was chosen and the reason we have been chosen.
Sat, 23 Dec 2023 - 06min - 889 - UCA News Weekly Summary, December 22, 2023
Christians across Asia have prepared culturally and spiritually to celebrate Christmas and New Year despite hardships and challenges. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
Fri, 22 Dec 2023 - 11min - 888 - Observations: Christmas Credo
Our focus on the Christ child at Christmas can distract us from seeing the deeper reality of the Incarnation, that in Christ’s coming among us as one of us our whole life, including our death, has been embraced by God. We are invited at Christmas to strengthen our embrace of the whole reality of life, believing that God is with us in it all. Father William Grimm shares some thoughts on this.
Tue, 19 Dec 2023 - 06min - 887 - Homilies: Third Sunday of Advent (B) Dec. 17, 2023
The place we really live our faith is not in a church. It is in the desert of our workplaces, our schools, our streets, our homes. There is no other place for the world to hear our call to prepare the way of the Lord, to join us on the way of and to the Lord.
Sat, 16 Dec 2023 - 06min - 886 - UCA News Weekly Summary, December 15, 2023
A group of Catholics in an Indian archdiocese hailed the resignations of two senior leaders of their Eastern rite Syro-Malabar Church amid an ongoing crisis over a liturgy dispute and land scams. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
Fri, 15 Dec 2023 - 13min - 885 - Observations: Dragons in Advent
Our Advent meditations and prayers include reflection on the end of the age and the disasters that lead up to it. Today we face the dual disasters of war and climate change. We are not likely to see the end of either. But we can begin the long process of healing the world for the sake of future generations. Father William Grimm shares some thoughts on this.
Mon, 11 Dec 2023 - 07min - 884 - Homilies: Second Sunday of Advent (B) Dec. 10, 2023
In Advent we make a bit more effort to welcome the Lord into our lives and into our hearts, so that we can indeed know him as Son of God, as Good News.
Sat, 9 Dec 2023 - 06min - 883 - UCA News Weekly Summary, December 8, 2023
A bomb attack at a Sunday Mass left four university students dead and several injured in the insurgency-plagued Mindanao Island in the Philippines. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
Fri, 8 Dec 2023 - 12min - 882 - Homilies: First Sunday of Advent (B) Dec. 3, 2023
Faith, hope and love are virtues directed toward past, future and present. In Advent, we remind ourselves to be ever ready to meet and love the Lord who has come, who will come, who comes.
Sat, 2 Dec 2023 - 06min - 881 - UCA News Weekly Summary, December 1, 2023
A bishop, priests and religious fled Christ the King cathedral in Loikaw as military junta took over the complex in conflict-torn Myanmar. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
Fri, 1 Dec 2023 - 13min - 880 - Observations: Everyone, everyone, everyone
An increased understanding of gender issues has led to contention in the Catholic Church as Pope Francis acts on the principle that a pastoral approach to all people is the true role of the Church. Father William Grimm shares some thoughts on this.
Sun, 26 Nov 2023 - 00min - 879 - Homilies: Last Sunday of the Year (A) Nov. 26, 2023
We must be such followers of the crucified Jesus, giving our strength and even our lives for the sake of others that they will respond to us as the bystander at the crucifixion did who tried to give Jesus something to drink.
Sat, 25 Nov 2023 - 06min - 878 - UCA News Weekly Summary, November 24, 2023
Heavy rains and severe flooding left at least six people dead and thousands stranded in Vietnam and Philippines. In this weekly podcast we present stories from Asia you need to know.
Fri, 24 Nov 2023 - 12min - 877 - Homilies: Thirty-Third Sunday of the Year (A) Nov. 19, 2023
It is to us as servants and for the sake of being servants that God gives us talents. Let us not bury them, but put them forth for the whole world.
Sat, 18 Nov 2023 - 06min - 876 - UCA News Weekly Summary, November 17, 2023
Archbishop Joseph Li Shan of Beijing, president of China’s state-run Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association was in Hong Kong on a five-day visit that began on Monday. This story and more in this week’s podcast.
Fri, 17 Nov 2023 - 12min - 875 - Homilies: Thirty-Second Sunday of the Year A Nov. 12, 2023
Signs of God’s kingdom are all around us. If we remember that, we will see them and thus build up our supply of oil so that at any time, in any way that God comes to us, we will be ready.
Sat, 11 Nov 2023 - 06min - 874 - UCA News Weekly Summary, November 10, 2023
An earthquake killed at least 157, injured scores and made thousands homeless in Nepal, prompting the government and charities to rush aid to the affected families. This story and more in this week’s podcast.
Fri, 10 Nov 2023 - 12min - 873 - Homilies: Thirty-First Sunday of the Year (A) Nov. 5, 2023
Even though we may recognize the danger in ourselves of ostentatious religiosity that draws attention to ourselves rather than God, we frequently fail to realize that we sometimes encourage and abet it in others.
Sat, 4 Nov 2023 - 06min - 872 - UCA News Weekly Summary, November 3, 2023
At least 11 people were killed and scores injured in ongoing political violence in Bangladesh ahead of national election to be held next January. This story and more in this week’s podcast.
Fri, 3 Nov 2023 - 12min - 871 - Homilies: Thirtieth Sunday of the Year (A) Oct. 29, 2023
The law of Christ is simple. Love. Love God by loving your neighbor. And your neighbor is anyone close enough to be loved, anyone in the world.
Sat, 28 Oct 2023 - 06min - 870 - UCA News Weekly Summary, October 27, 2023
Indian Catholics have hailed the Vatican’s approval to the beatification process for 35 martyrs of the worst anti-Christian riot in Kandhamal district of eastern Odisha state in 2008. This story and more in this week’s podcast.
Fri, 27 Oct 2023 - 12min - 869 - Homilies: Twenty-Ninth Sunday of the Year (A) Oct. 22, 2023
We Christians have been shown Christ, the image of God, so that we can proclaim that image to all the world. In order to do so, we must clear away whatever mars that image in us.
Sat, 21 Oct 2023 - 06min - 868 - UCA News Weekly Summary, October 20, 2023
Fear of possible violence by hardliners gripped minority Hindus in Muslim-majority Bangladesh at the start of five-day Durga Puja, the biggest annual Hindu religious festival. This story and more in this week’s podcast.
Fri, 20 Oct 2023 - 14min - 867 - Homilies: Twenty-Eighth Sunday of the Year (A) Oct. 15, 2023
In the Eucharist, in the worship and service of the community of good and bad folks that Jesus invites to the banquet of God's Kingdom, I am offered a foretaste of heaven. How could I do other than rejoice?
Sat, 14 Oct 2023 - 06min - 866 - UCA News Weekly Summary, October 13, 2023
Catholic Church in Sri Lanka takes on President Ranil Wickremesinghe after he refused an international probe into the 2019 Easter Sunday attack. This story and more in this week’s podcast.
Fri, 13 Oct 2023 - 13min - 865 - Homilies: Twenty-Seventh Sunday of the Year (A) Oct. 8, 2023
There is one other thing we must do. We must hear and heed the messengers God sends to us workers in the vineyard. For we, too, need to be converted throughout our lives.
Sat, 7 Oct 2023 - 06min - 864 - UCA News Weekly Summary, October 6, 2023
Indian Catholics have paid rich tributes to first tribal Cardinal Telesphore P. Toppo, hailing him as a guiding light and defender of the poor, particularly of the indigenous people. This story and more in this week’s podcast.
Fri, 6 Oct 2023 - 12min - 863 - Homilies: Twenty-Sixth Sunday of the Year (A) Oct. 1, 2023
The test of Christian faith is not merely whether or not we are in church on Sunday. Going to church is the renewing of our "yes" to the call of God. But, do we follow through on the promise?
Sat, 30 Sep 2023 - 06min - 862 - UCA News Weekly Summary, September 29, 2023
Korean Catholics have been urged to protect the rights of migrants and refugees amid a state crackdown on undocumented immigrants. This story and more in this week’s podcast.
Fri, 29 Sep 2023 - 13min - 861 - Homilies: Twenty-Fifth Sunday of the Year (A) Sept. 24, 2023
Just as the parables of Jesus show the love of God in stories about lost coins, vineyards and generous landowners, the followers of Jesus must make the events of everyday life point to God's loving presence among us.
Sat, 23 Sep 2023 - 06min - 860 - UCA News Weekly Summary, September 22, 2023
Korean martyr Andrew Kim Tae-gon became the first Asian saint to have his statue installed on the wall of Saint Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican. This story and more in this week’s podcast.
Fri, 22 Sep 2023 - 12min - 859 - Observations: The synod restarts a process that will take decades
As the synod of bishops prepares for its sessions on synodality, many people look forward to big changes in the Church. Realistically, however, huge change is unlikely. The synod meetings are just the beginning of a process that will take generations. Father William Grimm shares some thoughts on this.
Thu, 21 Sep 2023 - 05min - 858 - Homilies: Twenty-Fourth Sunday of the Year (A) Sept. 17, 2023
The way out of the paradox is to realize that forgiving and being forgiven is not a parade of activities that happen in order – God forgives, then I forgive, then God forgives. God’s forgiving me and my forgiving others go on together.
Sat, 16 Sep 2023 - 06min - 857 - UCA News Weekly Summary, September 15, 2023
Christians in India face rising persecution and discrimination in the hands of hardline Hindu groups. This story and more in this week’s podcast.
Fri, 15 Sep 2023 - 11min - 856 - Homilies: Twenty-Third Sunday of the Year (A) Sept. 10, 2023
The Lord's command to confront sin in ourselves and others is never easy to fulfill. It is even harder, perhaps, to be the object of that confrontation, whether as individuals or as societies. So, what are we to do?
Sat, 9 Sep 2023 - 06min - 855 - UCA News Weekly Summary, September 8, 2023
Sri Lanka's Catholic Church demanded an international probe into the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings after a British documentary claimed they were orchestrated to tip that year’s election outcome. This story and more in this week’s podcast.
Fri, 8 Sep 2023 - 13min - 854 - Homilies: Twenty-Second Sunday of the Year (A) Sept. 3, 2023
The temptation to avoid the cross is not one that Jesus alone faced. We, too, face it. That is the reason Jesus tells us that we must be willing to take up the cross.
Sat, 2 Sep 2023 - 06min - 853 - UCA News Weekly Summary, September 1, 2023
Pope Francis arrived in Mongolia on Friday to kick off his historic four-day visit. He is the first pope to visit the Buddhist-majority Asian nation bordered by Russia and China. This story and more in this week’s podcast.
Fri, 1 Sep 2023 - 12min - 852 - Homilies: Twenty-First Sunday of the Year (A) Aug. 27, 2023
The important thing about Peter and the important thing about me is that Christ has chosen us to be Church. He has set us up in all our weakness and declared that the gates of death will not prevail against us.
Sat, 26 Aug 2023 - 06min - 851 - UCA News Weekly Summary, August 25, 2023
Church leaders and rights activists urged Filipinos to fight corruption and human rights abuses on the 40th death anniversary of democracy icon Benigno Aquino. This story and more in this week’s podcast.
Fri, 25 Aug 2023 - 12min - 850 - Homilies: Twentieth of the Year (A) Aug. 20, 2023
The Incarnation means that Jesus really was a man of his time, his place and his people. He spoke their language, he dressed as they dressed, he had the same prejudices they had.
Sat, 19 Aug 2023 - 06min - 849 - UCA News Weekly Summary, August 18, 2023
Mobs of Muslims attacked some 21 churches and dozens of Christian homes after two Christians were accused of committing blasphemy by desecrating the Quran in Pakistan’s Punjab province. This story and more in this week’s podcast.
Fri, 18 Aug 2023 - 13min - 848 - Observations: Special Military Operation and Peace
The war in Ukraine gives new urgency to the problem of peacemaking. What must those opposed to violence do in the face of violent injustice? Does pacifism mean allowing injustice to succeed or does the fact of injustice make pacifism a naive and worthless pose? Father William Grimm shares some thoughts on this.
Wed, 16 Aug 2023 - 06min - 847 - Homilies: Nineteenth Sunday of the Year (A) Aug. 13, 2023
The Lord is willing to support us in doing the impossible. What we need is enough faith to enable us to step out of the security of the boat we call everyday "sensible" life.
Sat, 12 Aug 2023 - 06min - 846 - UCA News Weekly Summary, August 11, 2023
Vietnam’s President Vo Van Thuong met with the country’s Catholic bishops to strengthen ties between the state and the church following his recent visit to the Vatican. This story and more in this week’s podcast.
Fri, 11 Aug 2023 - 12min - 845 - Homilies: Transfiguration Aug. 6, 2023
August 6 shines a bright light on our possibilities both as a human race and as individuals. As individuals, nations and a world, we must choose the path of glory lest we go down the path of destruction.
Sat, 5 Aug 2023 - 06min - 844 - UCA News Weekly Summary, August 4, 2023
Catholics in Vietnam hope for more religious freedom after the communist-ruled nation signed a deal allowing the Vatican to have a resident papal representative in the country. This story and more in this week’s podcast.
Fri, 4 Aug 2023 - 13min - 843 - Homilies: Seventeenth Sunday of the year (A) Jul. 30, 2023
How can I become like some learned scribe who can speak with confident knowledge of the Reign of God?
Sat, 29 Jul 2023 - 05min - 842 - UCA News Weekly Summary, July 28, 2023
Young Asian Catholics head to the Portuguese capital Lisbon to attend the World Youth Day to be held from August 2-6. This story and more in this week’s podcast.
Fri, 28 Jul 2023 - 12min - 841 - Homilies: Sixteen Sunday of the year (A) Jul. 23, 2023
In our prayer, God makes the seemingly impossible happen. The seed of good flourishes, the world is leavened. All we need do is pray. But how?
Sat, 22 Jul 2023 - 06min - 840 - UCA News Weekly Summary, July 21, 2023
The Vatican reiterates its stand to continue “dialogue” with China as Pope Francis recognized Bishop Joseph Shen Bin of Shanghai who was transferred and installed unilaterally violating the 2018 Sino-Vatican Agreement. This story and more in this week’s podcast.
Fri, 21 Jul 2023 - 12min - 839 - Homilies: Fifteenth Sunday of the Year (A) Jul. 16, 2023
No matter where some of the seed may land and the odds against it, the growth of the Reign of God is unstoppable. That's the seed, but what of the sower?
Sat, 15 Jul 2023 - 05min - 838 - UCA News Weekly Summary, July 14, 2023
Pope Francis named 21 new cardinals including two from Asia – Malaysian Bishop Sebastian Francis of Penang and Bishop Stephen Chow Sau-yan of Hong Kong. This story and more in this week’s podcast.
Fri, 14 Jul 2023 - 12min - 837 - Homilies: Fourteenth Sunday of the year (A) Jul. 9, 2023
The world around me may be in turmoil, but I will be in peace and calm, not because I am apart from the world, but because I am sharing God's deep love for that world.
Sat, 8 Jul 2023 - 05min - 836 - UCA News Weekly Summary, July 7, 2023
A crackdown on religious groups including Christians continues in Communist China. A Protestant church has appealed for prayers for the release of four arrested Christians. This story and more in this week’s podcast.
Fri, 7 Jul 2023 - 13min - 835 - Homilies: Thirteenth Sunday of the Year (A) Jul. 2, 2023
Part of the call of Christ is a call to repentance. It is not something I can reserve to Lent or an occasional confession. Because nearly my whole life is a nay-saying to God, my whole life must be repentance.
Sat, 1 Jul 2023 - 05min - 834 - UCA News Weekly Summary, June 30, 2023
Innocent lives continue to be lost as fighting intensifies in military-ruled Myanmar. This week, 10 civilians were killed and eight wounded when the military bombed a village. This story and more in this week’s podcast.
Fri, 30 Jun 2023 - 12min - 833 - Homilies: Twelfth Sunday of the Year (A) Jun. 25, 2023
In a world full of terrors, we have been commissioned to share the Good News that we need not fear. God’s love protects us. God’s love embraces us eternally, overcoming fear, overcoming death.
Sat, 24 Jun 2023 - 05min - 832 - UCA News Weekly Summary, June 23, 2023
Arson and unrest continued in India’s violence-hit Manipur state after more than 50 days with no end in sight for the ethnic conflict between warring communities. This story and more in this week’s podcast.
Fri, 23 Jun 2023 - 12min - 831 - Homilies: Eleventh Sunday of the Year (A) Jun. 18, 2023
My life as a Christian is not some sort of fortuitous accident. I have been chosen by God just as the Twelve were chosen. Somewhere in this world there is someone for whom I am God’s gift.
Sat, 17 Jun 2023 - 05min
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