Thy Kingdom Come, Our Kingdoms Go!
When we pray Christianity’s most important single prayer – The Our Father – do we really attempt to understand and meditate upon the challenge of its words – especially “thy kingdom come”? What is...
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The Beatitudes: The Path to Sainthood!
You are called by God to be a saint! And that all important calling from the Lord is not just to be seriously considered on All Saints Day – but every day! It is...
Imagine Having No Place To Call Home
Just imagine for a moment that you have no home. What will you do for meals today? Where will you shower? Where will you sleep? If you have children, how will you provide for...
Respect life! Challenge the Culture of Death!
St. Pope John Paul II, in his powerful encyclical letter “Evangelium Vitae” (“The Gospel of Life”), challengingly said “How can we fail to consider the violence against life done to millions of human beings,...
The ‘Season of Creation’
It’s good, it’s wise and it sounds so nice: “Season of Creation” – a time for us to stop taking the wonderful God-given gift of creation for granted. A time to wake up...
Searching for the Truth Behind 9/11
You probably remember where you were on Sept. 11, 2001. The day when 19 hijackers commandeered four airliners to strike the World Trade Center’s Twin Tower buildings in New York City, the Pentagon in...
The Tragedy of Child Labour
For millions of working children worldwide, the adventures of school year remain but a dream. Sadly, these children will never learn to read or write. They will not acquire computer skills. They will...
God is Calling us to Break Violence’s Stranglehold on our World
The recent tragic mass shootings in Dayton, Ohio and El Paso, Texas, killing at least 29 people, point to an ongoing epidemic of mass shootings in the United States. As of Aug. 5,...
Catholics Protest US Practice of Caging Immigrant Children
Many of us are not fond of seeing animals in cages. But when desperate human beings – especially children – who have trekked the gruelling, dangerous journey mainly from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras...
Lessons for Earth 50 Years After First Moon Landing
If you were at least 10-years-old on July 20, 1969, you will surely remember that your eyes were glued to a black and white television set watching what no eyes had ever seen before....
Independence Day 2019: Where Do We Go From Here?
US-based Tony Magliano looks at his country’s birthday – July 4th, Independence Day – and sees that sometimes slogans and rose-coloured glasses don’t make a country great… A birthday is naturally a time to...
Pope Critical of ‘Meanness’ Toward Migrants and Refugees
“The signs of meanness we see around us heighten our fear of ‘the other,’ the unknown, the marginalised, the foreigner,” and thus many migrants seeking a better life end up as recipients of this...
