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On October 2017, I returned to Taiwan as a second term lay missionary.

We read and see reports about the terrible number of child sexual assaults and how few perpetrators ever get convicted.

Catholic Church leaders have spoken out to condemn the brutal killing of a young priest, Father Mark Anthony Ventura, 37, from Gattaran town in the province of Cagayan on…

Before I become a lay missionary, I was a full-time volunteer at Jesuit Volunteer of the Philippines (JVP).

Apart from my General Council work, I have found myself unofficial chaplain to foreign inmates in five Hong Kong prisons.

It all started about three months ago when catechist Timoci Matakiviwa turned up on our doorstep offering to compose a Centennial Meke for us.

The Portuguese have become a part of Rhode Island society, but not at the price of entirely losing their religious heritage.

When I was growing up in Ireland we used to hear about the bogey man – who would snatch naughty children and spirit them away.

A week-end retreat with the women
from the desolate city slum ??
delight in grass, and flowers and shrubs;
joy, to be free for two whole days

I have discovered
that a buttercup has five petals,
that several colors enliven a patch of moss
that grass comes in near-infinite variety

My main interfaith experiences in the Philippines were with Muslims; things in Myanmar are very different given the very large majority Buddhist population.

Church and police authorities and non-government organizations (NGOs) came together recently in the Vatican under the Santa Martha Group headed by Cardinal Vincent…