No sex please. We’re Asian.

Some years ago there was a very successful British comedy with the arresting title No Sex Please We’re British. The title was a play on the legendry shyness of the subject in 19th Century Victorian England. The reality of course was otherwise and that is the point of the title. (Fr Michael Kelly SJ, UCA News)

Indian mission congresses galvanize laity

Mission congresses at regional and diocesan levels across India have promoted a laity appraisal in the Church, say officials of the national conference of the Latin-rite bishops.

Missionary calling for Singapore laity

Singapore’s Catholic Church is launching a new program to train laity to become “participants in the mission of the Church at home and abroad.”

Katolisitas

The Indonesian Catholicity website presents commentaries, documents and writings based on scripture, the Catechism of the Catholic Church and other sources such as the writings of the saints, to connect the laity and clergy with theological teachings.

The Singapore Pastoral Institute

The formation and training institute of the archdiocese of Singapore, the Singapore Pastoral Institute, states its founding principle as a more active and meaningful discipleship for the laity in a church that is a communion of communities.

Working Brothers of Jesus seek new members

They work in factories, earn a salary and some of them even celebrate Mass. Are they priests or are they laymen? (UCA News)

JOY Koinonia - Pakistan

JOY Koinonia was the brainchild of Pakistani priest Father James Shamaun, who envisioned at Catholic Charismatic Ministry mostly consisting of lay people.

‘Co-responsible’ not ‘collaborators’: US bishop tells laity

Lay people “must no longer be viewed as ‘collaborators’ of the clergy, but truly recognized as ‘co-responsible’ for the Church’s being and action,” Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput said in a speech delivered on his behalf last week.
In a speech delivered by his representative at the Becket Fund conference, Archbishop Chaput addressed the subject “Voices: The [...]

Jesuits in Asia Pacific

The Jesuit Conference of East Asia and Oceania (JCEAO) is one of the six Conferences that facilitate and coordinate international activities of the Jesuits.
The membership is made up of about 1,800 Jesuit priests, brothers, scholastics and novices together with religious and lay collaborators, whose lives and services crisscross from Thailand to Micronesia and from Korea [...]

Former Chinese underground priest on Papal letter

Father Peter Peng Jiandao of Handan in Hebei province received his formation in the underground Church before he surfaced to work openly. (UCA News)

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