Podcast Episodes

UCA News Weekly Summary, July 29, 2022

Episode 729

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

Myanmar’s military regime executed four political prisoners including a former minister and a veteran activist, drawing…

Published on 3 years, 4 months ago

Homilies: Seventeenth Sunday of the Year (C) Jul. 24, 2022

Episode 726

Jesus is telling us disciples that we need not worry that God will not understand our prayers. We do not have to use proper formulas, the right words. God loves us so much that our inadequate prayers…

Published on 3 years, 4 months ago

UCA News Weekly Summary, July 22, 2022

Episode 728

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

Gotabaya Rajapaksha is gone, but the 22 million people of the island nation are in no mood to trust his successor to le…

Published on 3 years, 4 months ago

Observations: The road to where Jesus awaits our belated arrival

Episode 727

Pope Francis has appointed three women to a key office in the Vatican. It is a small step toward the long delayed acceptance of the radical equality between male and female disciples that marked the …

Published on 3 years, 5 months ago

Homilies: Sixteenth Sunday of the Year (C) Jul. 17, 2022

Episode 724

Today, as the attitudes toward women that subverted the practice of Jesus are changing in many places, we in the Church are being challenged to once again accept the fact that Jesus still has somethi…

Published on 3 years, 5 months ago

UCA News Weekly Summary, July 15, 2022

Episode 725

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

Sri Lanka’s debt-laden economy has collapsed, its president on the run and the island nation is now on the verge of pol…

Published on 3 years, 5 months ago

Homilies: Fifteenth Sunday of the Year (C) Jul. 10, 2022

Episode 721

As followers of Jesus, we are commissioned by him to serve any need we see, no matter what reasons we think there may be for passing by.

About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missio…

Published on 3 years, 5 months ago

UCA News Weekly Summary, July 8, 2022

Episode 723

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

Father Stan dedicated his life to ensure the constitutional rights of indigenous peoples as equal citizens of India. Th…

Published on 3 years, 5 months ago

Observations: Monolingual clergy in a multilingual Japanese Church

Episode 722

Most of Japan’s Catholics are not Japanese. They have come to alleviate a shortage of native workers. While the Church has tried to respond to their pastoral needs, little has been done to integrate …

Published on 3 years, 5 months ago

Homilies: Fourteenth Sunday of the Year (C) July 3, 2022

Episode 718

We must teach the world's wolves a new way of living. We must teach respect for the weak and service to them. We must teach the wolves that lambs are not for devouring, but for showing us something a…

Published on 3 years, 5 months ago