UCA News Podcath
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UCA News PodcathSep 05, 2020
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Monday 21 Dec, 2020
The alternative first reading today is from the book of the Song of Songs and it's the closest thing we'll find in the Old Testament to a piece of erotic poetry. All of which is done for real reason not because people constructing the Song of Songs want to exaggerate or eroticize the engagement with God because the engagement with God is not erotic.
About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.
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Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Sunday 20 Dec, 2020
What I like about the readings that come at this time of the year - Christmas time - is that they are full of familiar references which is very helpful for prayer. Particularly the reading that come from the Gospel of Luke who is someone who's very graphic and describes events and personalities with a great deal of color.
About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.
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Homilies: Fourth Sunday of Advent December 20, 2020
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.
About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 years experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.
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UCA News Weekly Summary, December 18, 2020
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Church leaders and activists in Asia have called for upholding human rights and dignity amid an onslaught of rights abuses while nations continue to grapple with fallouts from Covid-19.
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Compiled by Rock Ronald Rozario and Edited by Peter Hill, presented by John Laurenson, background score by Andre Louis and produced by Binu Alex for ucanews.com
Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Saturday 19 Dec, 2020
Today in the Gospel from Luke we have another vivid demonstration of the Evangelist’s capacity to write a rich narrative full of suggestive details. We get taken into the story and we get enriched by what we hear and read.
About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.
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Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Friday 18 Dec, 2020
Any stories in the Gospel we can't really understand if we don't move inside them and become part of them. They are not just a description of a set of factual events that we get the detail from the gospel about. It is not a series of facts in historical narrative that bear inspection and can’t be corroborated. They are the telling of a story of faith in people's lives as they unfold, and the events recorded in them.
About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.
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Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Thursday 17 Dec, 2020
What Matthew does is begin with a genealogy to show Jesus heritage because he's not only son of God but he is also a human being and as a human being he has precedence, ancestors and relatives.
About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.
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Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Wednesday 16 Dec, 2020
In today's Gospel we have another chapter in the discussion in the early church about the role of John the Baptist, the place of his followers and the relationship with Jesus. We have some of John the Baptist followers coming to Jesus and saying are you the one that we have been wait for or we have to wait for another.
About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.
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Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Tuesday 15 Dec, 2020
It's the Paradox of human achievement that we can go and do extraordinary things and then they hang around our necks and eventually choke us. That's what Jesus is getting us at the Gospel today.
About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.
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Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Monday 14 Dec, 2020
Today's Gospel puts us in a place that's quite familiar if we think about it. It is one of those situations that occur when we're trying to avoid accepting something that might have unpleasant, unwelcomed, uninvited consequences. Jesus is coming and the Pharisees and not really happy with him they think he is a threat and want him out of their lives because he's only going to create trouble.
About the Author: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.
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Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Sunday 13 Dec, 2020
Jesus is an outsider. Jesus is someone who comes and he's a threat to the establishment in Israel at the time. Jesus is someone sent on a mission of universal significance, but no one seems to recognize that that's what he's there for. If you look at those pointers from the old testament taking particular first reading, we have today is about the people of Israel in the exile by looking to be vindicated renewed refreshed invigorated it by the lord, but they are speaking from exile.
About the Author: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.
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Homilies: Third Sunday of Advent December 13, 2020
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.
About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 years experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.
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UCA News Weekly Summary, December 11, 2020
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International Human Rights Day was observed across the globe this week. Rights watchdogs and media outlets have reported an escalation in violations of people’s basic freedoms and rights around the world and in Asian nations.
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Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Saturday 12 Dec, 2020
Quite appropriately for this time of year as we head towards Christmas the readings at Mass drawn on some of the great stories that point the significance of the mystery of the Incarnation. God coming to dwell among us and in particular for the Gospels. We draw on Luke's Gospel because it has the most graphic rich and suggestive stories around the birth of Jesus and today, we have the annunciation, the only record of this extraordinary event in the gospels it's there in Luke's account because it points to the very thing that Luke trying to say all the time that this is God's initiative.
About the Author: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.
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Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Friday 11 Dec, 2020
Both reading today focus on the unlikely and difficult subject of missed opportunities. Missed opportunities are things that all of us can identify with things that we've done poorly and nothing fruitful has come from it or things we haven't done neither because we didn't know we had to do them or we didn't say the way we could do them but they slipped out of our hands on away from our grasp and we've missed the opportunity.
About the Author: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.
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Observations: This Christmas either about God with us or nothing
This year, Christmas is either about God with us or it is nothing. If Covid Christmas teaches us that, next year we may resume the trappings of the season, but with a new unclouded knowledge of what the feast really is. Father William Grimm, who lives in Japan, shares some thoughts.
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Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Thursday 10 Dec, 2020
We've been going through a very strange time throughout the world watching the Americans argue with each other about who won the presidential election in November. Now I think when it comes to the New Testament and particularly would you look at today's Gospel there's an argument about who is the preeminent character in the community. Is it John the Baptist? Is it Jesus? Is it who? And that argument was going on for some decades after the death of Jesus and that's reflected in today's Gospel from the Gospel of Matthew who is preeminent.
About the Author: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.
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Reflections with Fr. Michael Kelly - Wednesday 9 Dec, 2020
Remarkable, but actually also quite mysterious feature of our engagement with God through scripture is that almost on a random basis wherever we are and however we are we can flip the scripture open and find in it wherever it randomly lands something that can actually address the particular issue, particular state of mind, state of hearts, state of soul the way in at that time. And that very thing has happened to me in the consideration of the Gospel for today come to me all you who labor and are overburdened, and you will find rest for your soul.
About the Author: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.
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Homilies: Second Sunday of Advent December 6, 2020
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.
About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 years experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.
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UCA News Weekly Summary, December 4, 2020
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Catholics in Asia have experienced celebrations, commemorations and abuses this week, while church leaders made pledges to protect the rights of vulnerable groups including farmers, women and children.
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Homilies: First Sunday of Advent Nov 29, 2020
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.
About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 years experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.
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UCA News Weekly Summary, November 27, 2020
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Across Asia, rights violations and abuses against women and minorities dominated the news this week. It comes against the backdrop of a second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic hitting Asia and other regions of the globe.
Text written by Rock Ronald Rozario and Edited by Peter Hill, presented by John Laurenson, background score by Andre Louis and produced by Binu Alex.
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Observations: Better luck next time?
Even while the world is facing a new spike in cases and deaths, there have been encouragement news of development of vaccine and prevents the Corona Virus. Besides being a source of hope for us all, for people in the church, this development presents the possibility of resuming some sort of normal parish life. But it would be a mistake to pick up where we left off. There would be more pandemics and unlike this time we must be prepared for them. Father William Grimm, who lives in Japan, shares some thoughts.
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Homilies: 34th Sunday in Ordinary Time Nov 22, 2020
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.
About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 years experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.
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UCA News Weekly Summary, November 20, 2020
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Across Asia, natural calamities made headlines this week as many nations continued to struggle against the Covid-19 pandemic. The region also earned a black mark for state restrictions on religious freedom.
Text written by Rock Ronald Rozario, Christopher Joseph and Edited by Peter Hill, presented by John Laurenson, background score by Andre Louis and produced by Binu Alex.
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Homilies: 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time Nov 15, 2020
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.
About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 years experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.
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UCA News Weekly Summary, November 13, 2020
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The US presidential election filled Asian media last week, drowning out news about Myanmar's general election. Despite elections, Asian nations continue to report shrinking space for democracy and religious freedom.
Text written by Christopher Joseph and Edited by Peter Hill, presented by John Laurenson, background score by Andre Louis and produced by Binu Alex.
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Global perspectives on religion, culture, politics, economy, science, technology and much more. Engage in compelling articles and unique insights into the Vatican and the Catholic Church. Click here to get the offer.
Homilies: 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time Nov 8, 2020
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.
About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 years experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.
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UCA News Weekly Summary, November 6, 2020
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Catholics across the world observed two major feasts this week —All Saints Day and the All Souls Day. The feasts that remember the dead were also occasions to discuss forced disappearances, a dreadful rights violation that several Asian nations continue to witness.
Text written by Christopher Joseph and Edited by Peter Hill, presented by John Laurenson, background score by Andre Louis and produced by Binu Alex.
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Homilies: All Saints Day, Nov 1, 2020
Remembering all saints becomes a reminder that God can be, and in fact is at work in the time, place and life which I live.
About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 years experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.
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UCA News Weekly Summary, October 30, 2020
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Asia this week witnessed a series of attacks on religious and democratic freedoms amid the grand news of Pope Francis naming two Asians among 13 new cardinals. Religious minorities across Asia continue to face attacks and harassment from authoritarian regimes and fanatics.
Text written by Christopher Joseph and Edited by Peter Hill, presented by John Laurenson, background score by Andre Louis and produced by Binu Alex.
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Homilies: 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time - Oct 25, 2020
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.
About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 years experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.
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UCA News Weekly Summary, October 23, 2020
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China and the Vatican this week agreed to extend an agreement on the appointment of bishops in the communist country. The Vatican said the extension aims to help the Church in China, at a time when violations of religious and democratic rights continue unabated across Asia.
Text written by Christopher Joseph and Edited by Peter Hill, presented by John Laurenson, background score by Andre Louis and produced by Binu Alex.
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Observations: T-shirts, mothers and life everlasting
The world’s political news is full of people fixated on the short term. They pander to the fears and frustrations of others in order to gain and keep power, wealth and prestige without considering what they may be doing to other people, to themselves, to the environment or to the moral standards and morale of the world. Father William Grimm, who lives in Japan, shares some thoughts about taking a long, the very long, view.
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Q&A - The UCA News Interviews - Australian Catholic teacher Garry Mulroy freed from a Cambodian jail
Occasionally, UCA News Podcath invites experts to discuss issues relevant to Asian communities.
Australian Catholic teacher Garry Mulroy, who has been freed from a Cambodian jail on appeal, has vowed to fight his conviction for indecently assaulting six children. Mulroy claims he was the victim of a racket that extorted up to US$100,000 from him. The World Justice Project ranks Cambodia’s justice system “the worst” in the region, listing it as second from bottom on an index of 113 countries. The prosecution never said how Mulroy assaulted the boys. His release was shrouded in secrecy amid fears of reprisals. In an interview with UCA News’ Cambodia columnist Luke Hunt, Mulroy tells that the six boys under his care were going to school and learning to play guitar among other activities designed to provide them with life skills. “Those boys were like family to me. They were the sons I never had. They were the biggest losers of this whole affair,” he says. Listen to the full story.
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Homilies: 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time - Oct 18, 2020
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.
About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 years experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.
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UCA News Weekly Summary, October 16, 2020
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The arrest of an 84-year-old Jesuit priest accused of terrorist links continues to generate protests from Christians and rights groups across India. But the arrest was just one in a series of suppressive actions authoritarian governments in Asia impose on people standing up for democratic rights and religious freedom.
Text written by Christopher Joseph and Edited by Peter Hill, presented by John Laurenson, background score by Andre Louis and produced by Binu Alex.
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Homilies: 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time - Oct 11, 2020
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?
About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 years experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.
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UCA News Weekly Summary, October 9, 2020
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China continues to attract headlines in Catholic media as church leaders debate the Vatican’s plans to renew its pact with the communist country this month. The past week also saw Pope Francis signing an encyclical that stressed human brotherhood. It comes at a time when Christians across Asia continue to face various forms of suppression.
Text written by Christopher Joseph and Edited by Peter Hill, presented by John Laurenson, background score by Andre Louis and produced by Binu Alex.
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Homilies: 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time - Oct 4, 2020
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.
About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 years experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.
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UCA News Weekly Summary, October 2, 2020
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The news of the Vatican's proposal to renew its controversial deal with China filled the Catholic media in the past week. As the Vatican attempted to normalize the Church's life in communist China, Christians continued to face restrictions on practicing their faith elsewhere in Asia.
Text written by Christopher Joseph and Edited by Peter Hill, presented by John Laurenson, background score by Andre Louis and produced by Binu Alex.
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Homilies: 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time - Sep 27, 2020
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?
About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 years experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.
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UCA News Weekly Summary, September 25, 2020
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Developments in Asia this week show how governments are directly or indirectly moving against religious minorities including Christians. Religious freedom is threatened by attacks, murders and draconian laws in several parts of the region.
Text written by Christopher Joseph and Edited by Peter Hill, presented by John Laurenson, background score by Andre Louis and produced by Binu Alex.
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Homilies: 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time - Sep 20, 2020
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.
About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 years experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.
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UCA News Weekly Summary, September 18, 2020
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The Covid-19 pandemic has tightened its grip on India, where daily some 90,000 people are now infected. The contagion is weakening in most Asian nations, but its socio-economic impact on the poor has increased.
Text written by Christopher Joseph and Edited by Peter Hill, presented by John Laurenson, background score by Andre Louis and produced by Binu Alex.
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Observations: The armed man: perpetrator, victim, and instrument of God’s justice
Violence is unjustified, but it remains one of the tragedies of our sin-marred, sin-deformed world that it too often takes violence to end or control worse violence. Resort to violence cannot, of course, be for the sake of pride, selfishness, or any other aim than an honest pursuit of justice, as Father William Grimm, who lives in Japan says, for without justice there can be no peace.
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Homilies: 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time - Sep 13, 2020
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.
About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 years experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.
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UCA News Weekly Summary, September 11, 2020
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The feast of Mother Teresa, who toiled for the poor, passed off quietly this week as Asia’s poor continued to suffer from floods, the coronavirus pandemic and oppressive regimes. Christian communities across Asia also confronted stories of discrimination, oppression and corruption.
Text written by Christopher Joseph and Edited by Peter Hill, presented by John Laurenson, background score by Andre Louis and produced by Binu Alex.
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Homilies: 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time - Sep 6, 2020
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?
About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 years experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.
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UCA News Weekly Summary, September 4, 2020
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Developments across Asia in the past week were shocking for groups fighting for religious freedom and democracy. Authoritarian governments continued their arm-twisting tactics to remain in power as the Covid-19 pandemic continued to claim thousands of lives.
Text written by Christopher Joseph and Edited by Peter Hill, presented by John Laurenson, background score by Andre Louis and produced by Binu Alex.
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