UCA News Podcast

Today’s Gospel is a special moment where we can see how the early Christians resolved conflicts and disagreements. The most important thing for us to grasp is that they kept things very personal and …

This extract from the Gospel of John comes after the declaration of John’s message through the SIGNS Jesus uses to express what he wants to say and before he goes into the long Last Supper discourse.…

Today’s Gospel is a further gloomy prediction: that the one whom the apostles are following is to comet a painful end when he is given into the hands of ruthless people. Haunted by the looming Cross,…

The Eucharist we share is food like that the angel gave Elijah. It is food that enables us to persevere in our long journey to God. It is the strength of God.

About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm…

In our journey in faith, we are invited to journey every day deeper into the life of God in our midst. God wants us to share the life of Father, Son and Holy Spirit every day in a deeper and deeper w…

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

Asian nations have reported repression against minorities including Christians as strong calls are made for an end to i…

This Gospel scene is a decisive statement of just what Jesus' miraculous work is really about: faith - inviting it and nourishing it. It’s not about signs and wonders with Jesus provoking people to “…

The Transfiguration which we celebrate today is the feast that keeps our eyes and attention focused on what God’s grace can do even as we are smothered in circumstances and impacts that seem destruct…

Today’s Gospel is really what someone would call the clearest and simplest mission statement Jesus could articulate - that he is from God, has a mission from God, this will entail renunciation and su…

In preparation for the reopening of churches, bishops have an opportunity to raise the quality of liturgical service. Workshops for clergy on preaching and liturgy can be done remotely while waiting …

Things never happen as and when we want them to happen and today’s story in the Gospel is one underlining the force and significance of perseverance in our requests for Jesus’ intervention. It jolts …

Today we have a powerful sequence of stories about the healing that Jesus’ presence brings. This powerful effect is completely free of any effort on the part of the apostles, and in some instances ev…

Today’s Gospel is a decisive turning point in the fortunes of Jesus because the fate of John the Baptist - his execution by Herod’s agents - is a pointer for Jesus to just what lay ahead for Jesus hi…

The Lord sets a banquet before me, but all too often, I look over, under and around the table for the sort of nourishment I think I need instead of feasting on what I am offered, the only real nouris…

We have reached the climax of John Chapter 6 and the climax of John’s teaching on the eucharist - that this is how God nourishes us for the journey of life and faith with the body and blood of Jesus,…

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

Catholics in Asia have experienced both joy and grief this week with clergy ordinations in China and Vietnam and the ba…

On the Feast off St. Ignatius Loyola we would do well to consider his two great contributions to the life of the Church - firstly the way he provides for sand introduction to the mystical life and th…

Human beings - like all of us - don’t like change and do everything to resist it. This is especially so hen we have grown comfortable with a familiar view of other people or the circumstances we have…

Feast of St Martha, Mary and Lazarus. Today we celebrate the feast day of some friends of Jesus who turn up in the Gospel narratives at various points and are very instructive when they do. Today’s G…

Again, Jesus uses some very simple but just because they are simple, they remain extremely powerful images and metaphors for the action off God in our world. They suggest just what we need to do in r…