Podcast Episodes

UCA News Weekly Summary, February 10, 2023

Episode 788

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

Pope Francis joined the world to grieve and to seek global solidarity after the massive loss of lives in a devastating …

Published on 2 years, 10 months ago

Homilies: Fifth Sunday of the Year (A) Feb. 5, 2023

Episode 785

The proverb says that "one bad apple spoils the whole bunch." That may be true of a crate of apples, but in today's Gospel, Jesus tells us that it does not apply to people. Good is contagious.

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Published on 2 years, 10 months ago

UCA News Weekly Summary, February 3, 2023

Episode 786

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

Protesters in Myanmar marked second anniversary of the military coup with a “silent strike.” Christians joined prayers …

Published on 2 years, 10 months ago

Homilies: Fourth Sunday of the Year(A) Jan. 29, 2023

Episode 783

Poverty of spirit frees me to accept God's greatest gift, the Kingdom, because I am not holding on to any illusions that my talents, my possessions, my time, or my life are my own.

About the Speaker: …

Published on 2 years, 10 months ago

UCA News Weekly Summary, January 27, 2023

Episode 784

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

A former soldier was sentenced to a life term for allegedly killing four civilians in Indonesia’s restive, Christian-m…

Published on 2 years, 10 months ago

Homilies: Third Sunday of the Year (A) Jan. 22, 2023

Episode 781

The Church that follows Jesus must be as willing to subordinate everything else to the proclamation of God's love. If that means downplaying or even abandoning certain ways of doing things, so be it.…

Published on 2 years, 11 months ago

UCA News Weekly Summary, January 20, 2023

Episode 782

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

The military junta in Myanmar torched and completely destroyed a 129-year-old Catholic Church amid ongoing violence aga…

Published on 2 years, 11 months ago

Homilies: Second Sunday of the Year (A) Jan. 15, 2023

Episode 778

Spirituality is not so much a matter of prayer as of awareness, about sensitivity in ordinary time to the ordinary events and people around me. Christ is there among them as he was among the events a…

Published on 2 years, 11 months ago

UCA News Weekly Summary, January 13, 2023

Episode 780

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

The pope finally meets Hong Kong’s outspoken cardinal andcritic of the warming up China-Vatican ties at the expense of …

Published on 2 years, 11 months ago

Observations: The last pope of the Second Church?

Episode 779

The death of Joseph Ratzinger, Pope Benedict 16, may be one more step toward the end of an era in the history of Christianity as we move from a Euro-centric millennium and a half to a more catholic, …

Published on 2 years, 11 months ago