Podcast Episodes

Homilies: Fourth Sunday of the Year (A) Dec. 21, 2025

Episode 1117

The one whose birth we are about to celebrate has many titles, but one name, the name he shared with so many other people in his land. It is wondrous because it is so common. The mystery that we cele…

Published on 5 hours ago

UCA News Weekly Summary, December 19, 2025

Episode 1118

Listen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule of around 10 minutes.

The Philippines’ communist party, waging a long-standing war against the government, has declared a ceasefire to let…

Published on 1 day, 3 hours ago

Homilies: Third Sunday of Advent (A) Dec. 14, 2025

Episode 1114

Now as we practice the carols of "peace on earth, good will to all" it is time to renew our commitment to live as Christ who came not to condemn sinners, but to embrace and save them.  

About the Spea…

Published on 1 week ago

UCA News Weekly Summary, December 12, 2025

Episode 1115

Listen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule of around 10 minutes.

Pope Leo XIV urged an end to hostilities as Thailand and Cambodia engaged in a fresh, undeclared war over a longstan…

Published on 1 week, 1 day ago

Observations: Diakonia

Episode 1116

A Vatican commission has said that there is insufficient historical evidence to support the ordination of women to the deaconate. This disappoints those who want to see women join the clergy. However…

Published on 1 week, 1 day ago

Homilies: Second Sunday of Advent (A) Dec. 7, 2025

Episode 1112

"Advent" means "coming" and coming is something that happens from the future. At this time of year I remind myself that my whole life is lived in expectation of something that is coming, and that doe…

Published on 2 weeks ago

UCA News Weekly Summary, December 4, 2025

Episode 1113

Listen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule of around 10 minutes.

Churches and temples in Sri Lanka are providing emergency relief to thousands left stranded by Cyclone Ditwah. Liste…

Published on 2 weeks, 1 day ago

Homilies: First Sunday Advent A (A) Nov. 30, 2025

Episode 1110

Advent is about the other kind of wait, the doing wait, the moving wait, the heading toward a goal wait. Perhaps it is more like riding on a train than like sitting in a theater before the show start…

Published on 3 weeks ago

UCA News Weekly Summary, November 28, 2025

Episode 1111

Listen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule of around 10 minutes.

South Korea’s largest Buddhist order has called for the immediate withdrawal of a proposed special law that would of…

Published on 3 weeks, 1 day ago

Homilies: Thirty-Fourth or Last Sunday of the Year (C) Nov. 23, 2025

Episode 1107

If I am a servant of the cross-king, of a king who does not sit, then I too must not be a sitter. I must show my loyalty to my king by moving among others as he did, as he does, not to receive homage…

Published on 4 weeks ago