Hearing the cries of the poor
KOTA KINABALU - A pre-Christmas Garage Sale in aid of the poor was run on the eve of the 2nd World Day of the Poor, commemorated worldwide this year on Nov 18. The garage sale, which was held at the…
KOTA KINABALU - A pre-Christmas Garage Sale in aid of the poor was run on the eve of the 2nd World Day of the Poor, commemorated worldwide this year on Nov 18. The garage sale, which was held at the…
TENGHILAN, Tuaran - After a lengthy ten-year formation in the seminary, Deacon Russell Lawrine Samin was finally ordained as a priest, Nov 10, 2018 at St James Church here by Archbishop John Wong. On this joyous day, turning up to…
KOTA KINABALU - If number is anything to go by, the attendance of over 400 participants at the recent PPC Formation should be a sign worth watching. They are the newly formed pastoral council/committee members to whom, by virtue of…
KUCHING - The steps of Minor Orders (now called the Ministries of Acolyte and Lector) once again remind seminarians at St Peter’s College Major Seminary here of the ultimate goal of the seminarian, for he is not called simply to…
The migrant caravan through the eyes of Catholic social teaching A CARAVAN now estimated at 7,000 people is currently making its way north. Many of the asylum-seekers have said they plan to stay in Mexico, where President Enrique Peña Niet…
IT is noble to mark the World Day of the Poor with gifts of charity, but Pope Francis has challenged Catholics to go much further than that. He asks us to observe it by making a serious examination of conscience…
LIKAS (CS) - The Kota Kinabalu Archdiocesan Liturgy Commission organized the first-ever formation for readers and commentators 27 Oct 2018 at St Simon’s Catholic Church here. The one-day formation program was attended by 195 participants from across the Archdiocese. The…
IT was also during the tenure of Fr Gastel as the school principal that future seminarians/priests were also studying in the school. They were Francis Basintal, Julius Masudal, Lawrence Joluis, Thomas Makajil and the two St Joseph’s Chinese boys from…
AS a young priest fresh from the seminary cold bench, Fr William Van Gastel found little time to learn the foreign language properly when he was posted to Sabah (North Borneo then). What he found himself doing, he wasted no…