Podcast Episodes

UCA News Weekly Summary, December 22, 2023

Episode 891

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

Christians across Asia have prepared culturally and spiritually to celebrate Christmas and New Year despite hardships a…

Published on 1 year, 11 months ago

Observations: Christmas Credo

Episode 886

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 be…

Published on 2 years ago

Homilies: Third Sunday of Advent (B) Dec. 17, 2023

Episode 884

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 th…

Published on 2 years ago

UCA News Weekly Summary, December 15, 2023

Episode 885

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

A group of Catholics in an Indian archdiocese hailed the resignations of two senior leaders of their Eastern rite Syro-…

Published on 2 years ago

Observations: Dragons in Advent

Episode 883

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 …

Published on 2 years ago

Homilies: Second Sunday of Advent (B) Dec. 10, 2023

Episode 881

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 …

Published on 2 years ago

UCA News Weekly Summary, December 8, 2023

Episode 882

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

A bomb attack at a Sunday Mass left four university students dead and several injured in the insurgency-plagued Mindana…

Published on 2 years ago

Homilies: First Sunday of Advent (B) Dec. 3, 2023

Episode 879

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 …

Published on 2 years ago

UCA News Weekly Summary, December 1, 2023

Episode 880

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

A bishop, priests and religious fled Christ the King cathedral in Loikaw as military junta took over the complex in con…

Published on 2 years ago

Observations: Everyone, everyone, everyone

Episode 878

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.  …

Published on 2 years ago