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A JOYOUS MOOD embraced the start of the new year at Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour on Jan 1 as family members and friends of four Canossian sisters gathered to celebrate their jubilees. Sisters Anna Ong, Mary Siluvainathan and Mary Tan were celebrating their golden jubilees, and Sister Theresa Seow her silver jubilee.For ...
While the duty to assist the poor is a constant theme in Catholic social teaching and is rooted in the teaching of Christ, the specific obligations and limitations of this duty are never spelled out. What the teaching provides is a moral vision that tells us that on the most fundamental level all men and ...
When I debate my conservative friends about poverty, I can expect one of them to cite Jesus’ saying that “you will always have the poor with you,” as if this is a preordained fate for cert …
FOR MANY YOUNG BOYS, the prospect of playing for what is arguably the greatest football club in the world is what dreams are made of, and for Manchester United defender John O’Shea, the dr …
Cyclone Nargis killed more than 170,000 people and left many more homeless. Among the survivors were some children whom a team from Family Life Society counselled and recently revisited.For the full story, pick up a copy of The Catholic News at your local parish this weekend.
SINGAPORE – Jesuit Father Charles Sim will be going to Sydney to complete his final phase of Jesuit formation, and thereafter to study for a Ph.D in the U.S.For the full story, pick up a c …
SINGAPORE – A seminar on important ethical issues affecting practising Catholic healthcare personnel, especially those working in institutions and hospitals, is being organized by the Ord …
SINGAPORE – For John Seah who is in his 50s, working in a company full of Protestants eager to question him on his faith, apologetics – the art of explaining his Catholic faith – is an alm …
SINGAPORE – The 2009 red packets for Chinese New Year produced by the China Catholic Communication (Zhonglian Centre) have a picture of five loaves (pineapple tarts) and two fishes on the …
SINGAPORE – Youth choirs from four parishes combined their talents to produce the concert titled “Juventus” at the Victoria Concert Hall on Dec 19. In addition to entertaining and uplift …
WHEN I BECAME pregnant at 18, I had an abortion. I was completely unprepared for the emotional fallout. I thought the abortion would erase the pregnancy. I thought I could move on with my life. I was wrong.For the full story, pick up a copy of The Catholic News at your local parish this weekend.
PLAYBOY MAGAZINE HAS sunken to knew lows in mocking the holy. Of course, every edition offers a mockery of the holy – the holy, in this case, being the female body. Precisely because of …
ZHENGDING, China (UCAN) – Father Joseph Jia Fuqian, uncle of “underground” Bishop Julius Jia Zhiguo of Zhengding, died of heart and lung diseases on Dec. 26. He was 88.About 10,000 C …
KOLKATA, India (UCAN) – Riya De beamed when she found her favorite author’s work in a bookstore. The 14-year-old Hindu girl told UCA News her cousin would “highly appreciate” Vernon …
WASHINGTON – Cardinal Avery Dulles, a Jesuit theologian who was made a cardinal in 2001, died on Dec 12 at the Jesuit infirmary in New York, Murray-Weigel Hall. A cause of death was not r …
SISTER ANGELA MCBRIEN, an FMDM pioneer to Singapore and who who initiated the birth of Mount Alvernia Hospital, died on Nov 22 in La Verna, an extension of the Franciscan Missionaries of the Divine Motherhood Motherhouse in England. The Memorial Service for Sister Angela was held on Dec 7 at Mount Alvernia Hospital Chapel. The ...
Guest Commentary America - The National Catholic MagazineJesuit Father Drew Christiansen, editor in chief of America, explores what a new instruction on bioethics from the Vatican means to …
ROME - It is better to give than to receive, but it’s not easy to be generous with your wealth when there’s a recession eating away at your wallet, or perhaps stealing your job. Yet charitable giving and philanthropy are vital to a prosperous society, and should be encouraged in good times and in bad.(read ...
VATICAN CITY – “Dignitas Personae” forcefully states that although there is no certainty about when a human being receives a soul an embryo is to be treated as a person from the moment of …
VATICAN CITY (CNS)—No fully moral solution exists for dealing with frozen embryos, not even the idea of adopting or “rescuing” abandoned embryos to bring them to full developme …
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