UCA News Podcast
By: Binu Alex, UCA News, Fr. Michael Kelly, Grithanai Napasrapiwong, John Laurenson, Father William Grimm
Language: en
Categories: News, Commentary, Society, Culture, Philosophy, Religion, Spirituality
Listen to interviews, commentaries, news summaries and analysis on social, political and religious developments that relate or are of interest to the Church in Asia. Enrich yourself with Sunday homilies and daily Gospel reflections. To donate go to www.ucanews.com/donate
Episodes
UCA News Weekly Summary, January 9, 2026
Jan 09, 2026Listen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule of around 10 minutes.
Christian clergy joined civil rights activists in a public demonstration in Sri Lanka to denounce the US kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Duration: 00:10:18Homilies: Epiphany (A) Jan. 4, 2026
Jan 03, 2026On Epiphany, we thank God for the gift of Jesus Christ, a gift given to all of us throughout the world, throughout time. Like the wise astrologers, we respond by bringing our gifts to the Lord: our ways of praying, our ways of singing, our ways of thinking, our ways of acting.
About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.
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Duration: 00:06:01Homilies: Mary Mother of God Jan. 1, 2026
Dec 31, 2025Each of us is presented with the same vocation as Mary. God says to you and to me, "Make my Son present in the world. Forgive sins. Bring healing. Live with faith that my love is stronger than your death. By word and deed, assure the world of my love."
About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.
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Duration: 00:05:38Homilies: Holy Family (A) Dec. 28, 2025
Dec 27, 2025The word "holy" comes from the word "healthy." Holiness is a kind of health, and health may be the means for us to understand holiness and, therefore, what we celebrate on this feast of the Holy Family.
About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.
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Duration: 00:06:23Homilies: Christmas Dec. 25, 2025
Dec 24, 2025Gospel Reflection by Father Bill Grimm
Today we remember and celebrate the fact that we can know God's glory and power not as some sort of information, but as a person. So, on Christmas Day we move from the story to the program, from what happened long ago to our vocation today.
About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.
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Duration: 00:05:36Observations: It’s a bad time to celebrate Christmas
Dec 22, 2025We live in a bad time, maybe so bad that we have no reason to celebrate Christmas. But there is a close relationship between bad times and the coming of Christ among us and for us. Father William Grimm shares some thoughts on this.
Produced by Binu Alex
About the Speaker: Father William Grimm, a native of New York City, is a missioner and presbyter who since 1973 has served in Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia. A graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York, he is the active emeritus publisher of UC...
Duration: 00:07:00Homilies: Fourth Sunday of the Year (A) Dec. 21, 2025
Dec 20, 2025The one whose birth we are about to celebrate has many titles, but one name, the name he shared with so many other people in his land. It is wondrous because it is so common. The mystery that we celebrate in his birth is that the God of the universe is met in someone like us, someone with a simple name, an ordinary Tom, Dick or Yeshua.
About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.
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Duration: 00:05:49UCA News Weekly Summary, December 19, 2025
Dec 19, 2025Listen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule of around 10 minutes.
The Philippines’ communist party, waging a long-standing war against the government, has declared a ceasefire to let citizens peacefully celebrate Christmas and New Year. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Duration: 00:11:54Homilies: Third Sunday of Advent (A) Dec. 14, 2025
Dec 13, 2025Now as we practice the carols of "peace on earth, good will to all" it is time to renew our commitment to live as Christ who came not to condemn sinners, but to embrace and save them.
About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.
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Duration: 00:05:39UCA News Weekly Summary, December 12, 2025
Dec 12, 2025Listen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule of around 10 minutes.
Pope Leo XIV urged an end to hostilities as Thailand and Cambodia engaged in a fresh, undeclared war over a longstanding border dispute. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Duration: 00:10:16Observations: Diakonia
Dec 12, 2025A Vatican commission has said that there is insufficient historical evidence to support the ordination of women to the deaconate. This disappoints those who want to see women join the clergy. However, it should remind us that the really important diaconate in the Church is already being provided by women and men who are not ordained to service. Father William Grimm shares some thoughts on this.
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About the Speaker: Father William Grimm, a native of New York City, is a missioner and presbyter who since 1973 has served in Japan, Hong Kong an...
Duration: 00:06:14Homilies: Second Sunday of Advent (A) Dec. 7, 2025
Dec 06, 2025"Advent" means "coming" and coming is something that happens from the future. At this time of year I remind myself that my whole life is lived in expectation of something that is coming, and that does not merely mean December 25.
About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.
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Duration: 00:05:57UCA News Weekly Summary, December 4, 2025
Dec 05, 2025Listen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule of around 10 minutes.
Churches and temples in Sri Lanka are providing emergency relief to thousands left stranded by Cyclone Ditwah. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Duration: 00:10:08Homilies: First Sunday Advent A (A) Nov. 30, 2025
Nov 29, 2025Advent is about the other kind of wait, the doing wait, the moving wait, the heading toward a goal wait. Perhaps it is more like riding on a train than like sitting in a theater before the show starts.
About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.
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Duration: 00:06:28UCA News Weekly Summary, November 28, 2025
Nov 28, 2025Listen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule of around 10 minutes.
South Korea’s largest Buddhist order has called for the immediate withdrawal of a proposed special law that would offer government support for the Church-organized World Youth Day in 2027. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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... Duration: 00:11:48Homilies: Thirty-Fourth or Last Sunday of the Year (C) Nov. 23, 2025
Nov 22, 2025If I am a servant of the cross-king, of a king who does not sit, then I too must not be a sitter. I must show my loyalty to my king by moving among others as he did, as he does, not to receive homage or reward, but to serve.
About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.
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Duration: 00:07:26UCA News Weekly Summary, November 21, 2025
Nov 21, 2025Listen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule of around 10 minutes.
We start with an18-year-old Cambodian worker was sexually assaulted while attempting to cross the closed border and return home. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Duration: 00:10:45Interview with Lisa Sullivan Maryknoll lay missioner highlighting ‘moral crisis’ at COP30
Nov 20, 2025In a sea of negotiators, lobbyists, and policy experts at the UN Climate Change Conference, Lisa Sullivan stands out for saying it as it is: “This is no longer an environmental problem. It’s a human problem.”Sullivan, a lay missioner with the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns (OGC) engaged in global advocacy and education, is attending COP30 in Belem, Brazil.Her journey with the Maryknoll family spans over 40 years, including more than two decades in the parched fields of Venezuela and El Salvador.Now based in Washington, D.C., her work is spread across Africa, Asia, and Latin Americ...
Duration: 00:16:27Homilies: Thirty-Third Sunday of the Year (C) Nov. 16, 2025
Nov 15, 2025Faith is not certainty, it is a choice. I choose, because of the evidence I have experienced of God's loving help in ages past, to believe that love will not desert me. If I am right, I will know. If I am wrong, I will not know. And in that case, neither being wrong nor having lived at all will matter.
About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.
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Duration: 00:06:37UCA News Weekly Summary, November 14, 2025
Nov 14, 2025isten to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule of around 10 minutes.
Christians and civil society groups condemn latest attack as move to destabilize peace and harmony in region amid blasts in Pakistan, Bangladesh and India. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Duration: 00:10:25Homilies: Dedication of the Lateran Basilica Nov. 9, 2025
Nov 08, 2025This feast of one church building in Rome reminds us that we can and should appreciate and celebrate all the buildings in which we gather as a community. Those buildings, whether they be lowly huts or grand basilicas, are our homes.
About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.
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Duration: 00:06:05UCA News Weekly Summary, November 7, 2025
Nov 07, 2025Listen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule of around 10 minutes.
North Indian state of Uttar Pradesh told to pay compensation to Muslim man detained for alleged forced conversion of a Hindu woman. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Duration: 00:11:45Homilies: All Souls Day Nov. 2, 2025
Nov 01, 2025The feast might be called All Sinners Day, for it is a day to recall that though we are called to sanctity and eternal life, we are not the saints we might be, the saints we hope to become.
About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.
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Duration: 00:06:15UCA News Weekly Summary, October 31, 2025
Oct 31, 2025Listen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule of around 10 minutes.
Indonesian authorities criticized for including former military dictator Suharto in a list of nominees for recognition as national heroes. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Duration: 00:10:37Homilies: Thirteith Sunday of the Year (C) Oct. 26, 2025
Oct 25, 2025Love it or fear it, a new Church is being born. It will take several lifetimes, but eventually the Church throughout the world will be different because of what is happening at the back of the temple.
About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.
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Duration: 00:06:26UCA News Weekly Summary, October 24, 2025
Oct 24, 2025Listen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule of around 10 minutes.
An upcoming Bollywood movie, claiming the iconic Taj Mahal is a Hindu temple, has caused fresh controversy in the Hindu-majority nation. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Duration: 00:10:51Homilies: Twenty-Ninth Sunday of the Year (C) Oct. 19, 2025
Oct 18, 2025Those in power who fear what people — especially those who have been deprived — have to say deprive themselves of the opportunity to change their lives for the better — in other words, of the chance to repent.
About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.
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Duration: 00:06:35UCA News Weekly Summary, October 17, 2025
Oct 17, 2025Listen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule of around 10 minutes.
Church leaders and rights activists have condemned a surge in violence against media workers in Pakistan’s southern Sindh province. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Duration: 00:12:37Homilies: Twenty-Eighth Sunday of the Year (C) Oct. 12, 2025
Oct 11, 2025We receive many gifts from God, but it is not the gifts nor even the recipient, but the Giver, upon whom we should focus.
About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.
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Duration: 00:06:48UCA News Weekly Summary, October 10, 2025
Oct 10, 2025Listen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule of around 10 minutes.
Singapore carried out its second execution in two weeks for drug offence, amid allegations by family of a Malaysian man that “critical evidence” was ignored. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Duration: 00:11:11Homilies: Twenty-Seventh Sunday of the year (C) Oct. 5, 2025
Oct 04, 2025People and situations will always appear that will need a response from this servant of God. The more I respond, the more opportunities for service will open up to me.
About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.
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Duration: 00:06:27UCA News Weekly Summary, October 3, 2025
Oct 03, 2025Listen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule of around 10 minutes.
Violence broke out after the alleged rape of a tribal girl in the restive hilly region in southeast Bangladesh. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Duration: 00:12:21Homilies: Twenty-Sixth Sunday of the Year (C) Sept 28, 2025
Sep 27, 2025This parable is a wake-up call to see that each and every man and woman is a child of God, and therefore my brother, my sister. Awareness can be the first step in conversion.
About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.
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Duration: 00:06:37UCA News Weekly Summary, September 25, 2025
Sep 26, 2025Listen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule of around 10 minutes.
A female journalist and five activists accused of aiding and abetting terrorism in the the Philippines are set free after spending seven years in jail. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Duration: 00:11:22Homilies: Twenty-Fifth Sunday of the Year (C) Sept 21, 2025
Sep 20, 2025Investing is a way to wealth in much of the world today. Ideally, an investment grows, leading to yet further investment. Can I do that with my possessions, putting at least some of them forward for the needy?
About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.
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Duration: 00:06:49UCA News Weekly Summary, September 19, 2025
Sep 19, 2025Listen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule of around 10 minutes.
A top Catholic official in Nepal has welcomed the interim government led by former Chief Justice Sushila Karki. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Duration: 00:11:34Homilies: Triumph of the Cross Sept 14, 2025
Sep 13, 2025The triumph of the cross is that, though suffering is always with us and may make us think we are far from God, when we suffer, we share in the life of God. Defeat, then, is victory. The holy Cross triumphs!
About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.
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Duration: 00:06:44UCA News Weekly Summary, September 12, 2025
Sep 12, 2025Listen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule of around 10 minutes.
Pope Leo XIV has lauded people of different religions in Bangladesh for exhibiting unity amid natural disasters, tragedies. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Duration: 00:11:50Homilies: Twenty-Third Sunday of the Year C) Sept 7, 2025
Sep 06, 2025Today, Jesus is telling us to be ready for fire so that when it comes, we will not be surprised, but resolute, knowing that the crisis today is one we took into account from the start.
About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.
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Duration: 00:06:39UCA News Weekly Summary, September 5, 2025
Sep 05, 2025Listen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule of around 10 minutes.
Chinese authorities are training children and youth to vilify religious groups deemed illegal in the communist-ruled nation. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Duration: 00:10:15Homilies: Twenty-Second Sunday of the Year (C) Aug. 31, 2025
Aug 30, 2025We tend to think that reflection upon the Word of God, upon the Work of God, is something solemn, serious, and private. But, sometimes, we should be ready to hear the Word in the hustle and bustle of our lives, in the symposium of eating, drinking and gabbing that is our daily life.
About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.
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Duration: 00:06:24UCA News Weekly Summary, August 29, 2025
Aug 29, 2025Listen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule of around 10 minutes.
Timor-Leste’s national parliament’s approval to purchase 65 new cars for parliamentarians has been slammed by critics. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Homilies: Twenty-First Sunday of the Year (C) Aug. 24, 2025
Aug 23, 2025Salvation is the state of being fully what God intends one to be. What God intends is loving communion with each of us and for us to live in communion with one another. So, whatever I do that helps my brothers and sisters know God's love and share it is an aid to their salvation.
About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.
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Duration: 00:06:29UCA News Weekly Summary, August 22, 2025
Aug 22, 2025Listen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule of around 10 minutes.
Church officials in southern India denounce pro-Hindu politician’s attempt to portray the man’s complaint as a bid to discredit the temple and Hindus. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Duration: 00:11:18Homilies: Twentieth Sunday of the Year (C) Aug. 17, 2025
Aug 16, 2025God seems to give what we do not want, and then expects us to call 'Good News.' Do you know the answer to the question: How do you train a mule? First, you take a large plank, and hit the animal over the head to get its attention.
About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.
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Duration: 00:06:53UCA News Weekly Summary, August 15, 2025
Aug 15, 2025Listen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule of around 10 minutes.
A leading Asia-based rights group has condemned the ongoing violence in the Philippines against rights defenders after two activists were gunned down. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Duration: 00:11:43Homilies: Nineteenth Sunday of the Year (C) Aug. 10, 2025
Aug 09, 2025Today's Gospel reminds us that regardless of whatever else we may do in the interim, we are waiting. The servants may have a dance party while awaiting the master's return, but they still keep an eye out for that return. So, where is he?
About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.
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Duration: 00:06:31UCA News Weekly Summary, August 8, 2025
Aug 08, 2025Listen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule of around 10 minutes.
International aid agencies have sought extra funds to help displaced people, especially children, forced from their homes by the Thai-Cambodian conflict. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Duration: 00:12:08Observations: Glorified children of God or demonic murderers
Aug 05, 2025August 6 is the feast of the Transfiguration and this year it is also the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, which was followed three days later by the bombing of Nagasaki. Those bombings ended World War 2 but began decades of terror as the fear of atomic power and the lust after it force us to confront humanity’s fascination with violence.Father William Grimm shares some thoughts on this.
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About the Speaker: Father William Grimm, a native of New York City, is a missioner and presbyter who since 1973 has serv...
Duration: 00:05:41Observations: Too Late
Aug 03, 2025The world is transfixed and bewildered by the government of the United States led by Donald Trump. In the U.S. there is increasing shock and anger even among those who voted for Trump at what is happening to their country. America’s bishops, many of whom supported him, are now trying to respond to policies and actions that violate human dignity and hurt various Church programs. It is, however, too late for them to effectively play a prophetic role in opposing the abuse of power. Father William Grimm shares some thoughts on this.
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Duration: 00:07:10Homilies: Eighteenth Sunday of the Year (C) Aug. 3, 2025
Aug 02, 2025The love of God guarantees life. Might it be that I am greedy because deep down I am not yet ready to rely upon the love of God? Do I really believe that this world is the whole story?
About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.
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Duration: 00:06:31UCA News Weekly Summary, August 1, 2025
Aug 01, 2025Listen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule of around 10 minutes.
India’s Opposition leaders strongly condemned the jailing of two Catholic nuns on what they called false charges of human trafficking and religious conversion. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Duration: 00:11:00Homilies: Seventeenth Sunday of the Year (C) Jul. 27, 2025
Jul 26, 2025Jesus 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 suffice.
About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.
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Duration: 00:06:23UCA News Weekly Summary, July 25, 2025
Jul 25, 2025Listen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule of around 10 minutes.
In a dramatic escalation of a long-running border dispute, Thailand and Cambodia launched attacks using air strikes, rockets, and artillery. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Duration: 00:11:41Homilies: Sixteenth Sunday of the Year (C) Jul. 20, 2025
Jul 19, 2025Today, 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 something to teach us that seems subversive of the so-called "normal" ordering of society and the Church.
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Duration: 00:06:10UCA News Weekly Summary, July 18, 2025
Jul 18, 2025Listen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule of around 10 minutes.
Indonesian Muslims joined Catholics to celebrate a religious-cultural festival dedicated to Mother Mary in the country’s Christian-majority Island. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Duration: 00:10:18Homilies: Fifteenth Sunday of the Year (C) Jul. 13, 2025
Jul 12, 2025As 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 Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.
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Duration: 00:06:19UCA News Weekly Summary, July 11, 2025
Jul 11, 2025Listen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule of around 10 minutes.
A Thai court has issued a warrant for the arrest of a Cambodian tycoon, senator and confidant of former Prime Minister Hun Sen. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Duration: 00:10:27Homilies: Fourteen Sunday of the Year (C) Jul. 6, 2025
Jul 05, 2025We 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 about God.
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Duration: 00:06:46UCA News Weekly Summary, July 4, 2025
Jul 04, 2025Listen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule of around 10 minutes.
A mentally ill man in Pakistan on death row has been freed by the country’s apex court. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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... Duration: 00:11:01Homilies: Peter and Paul Jun. 29, 2025
Jun 28, 2025We do not know, we never know, what the future will bring. What we do know is that God's love is real and that as Christians we are sent into the world to proclaim that good news.
About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.
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Duration: 00:06:04UCA News Weekly Summary, June 27, 2025
Jun 27, 2025Listen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule of around 10 minutes.
Christians in India’s Madhya Pradesh state have called for action against right-wing Hindu activists who assaulted and paraded four socially marginalized Dalit Christians naked through a village. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Duration: 00:10:17Homilies: The Body and Blood of Christ (C) Jun. 22, 2025
Jun 21, 2025God's love and blessings are not limited by the belief of the men and women through whom God chooses to work. A pagan priest-king not only has a place in the building of the Reign of God, but God uses him to bless believers.
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Duration: 00:05:51UCA News Weekly Summary, June 20, 2025
Jun 20, 2025Listen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule of around 10 minutes.
Thailand has been accused of engaging in activities detrimental to peace in the disputed border region with Cambodia. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Duration: 00:11:50Homilies: Trinity Sunday (C) Jun. 15, 2025
Jun 14, 2025Our glory as Christians is that God has chosen us to carry on the mission of the Son to be the love of God incarnate in creation. Our shame is that we so often fail as a Church and as individual Christians to live that mission.
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Duration: 00:06:27UCA News Weekly Summary, June 13, 2025
Jun 13, 2025Listen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule of around 10 minutes.
The Muslim men were acquitted of all charges of arson attacks on churches and minority-Christian homes in Jaranwala. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Duration: 00:12:12Homilies: Pentecost (C) Jun. 8, 2025
Jun 07, 2025Today's feast is a celebration of our mission as Church to proclaim to the whole world that Christ is risen. Since it is also a day on which we recall Christ's gift of forgiveness, we must reflect upon the sins that might hinder that proclamation.
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Duration: 00:06:49UCA News Weekly Summary, June 6, 2025
Jun 06, 2025Listen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule of around 10 minutes.
Trade unions in the Philippines organized a rally urging lawmakers to turn a newly proposed wage hike into law. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Duration: 00:10:41Homilies: Ascension (C) Jun. 1, 2025
May 31, 2025We, the new people of God, have been prepared for our vocation. We are the apostles. Christ has stepped aside so that we might step forward. The Acts of the Apostles begins with the Ascension of Jesus; they continue with us.
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Duration: 00:06:12UCA News Weekly Summary, May 30, 2025
May 30, 2025Listen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule of around 10 minutes.
Authorities urged to take necessary measures to end the desecration of Christian graves in the Muslim-majority country. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Duration: 00:10:41Homilies: Sixth Sunday of Easter (C) May 25, 2025
May 24, 2025The gift of peace would be glorious in itself, but as Christians we have a special vocation. We are called not merely to find peace, but to be the means of peace for others.
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Duration: 00:06:30UCA News Weekly Summary, May 23, 2025
May 23, 2025Listen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule of around 10 minutes.
Pakistani Christians have denounced the government for excluding Christian representatives from its official delegation to Pope Leo XIV’s inauguration ceremony. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Duration: 00:11:25Homilies: Fifth Sunday of Easter (C) May 18, 2025
May 17, 2025Bringing the world to Christ is our vocation. Loving one another is the way to live that vocation.
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Duration: 00:06:36UCA News Weekly Summary, May 16, 2025
May 16, 2025Listen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule of around 10 minutes.
The former president was elected mayor of Davao by a landslide, despite his detention by the International Criminal Court. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Duration: 00:10:29Homilies: Fourth Sunday of Easter (C) May 11, 2025
May 10, 2025It is still Easter time. It is still the season of resurrection. It is still the season to recall that my life is not a matter of the merely day-to-day, but of eternity.
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Duration: 00:06:12UCA News Weekly Summary, May 9, 2025
May 09, 2025Listen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule of around 10 minutes.
As the College of Cardinals on May 7 evening elected the Chicago-born Augustinian Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost to succeed Pope Francis, the so-called official Church in China has elected two bishops, says a report. Listen to this and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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<... Duration: 00:10:56Observations: Is Pope Leo a Cubs fan?
May 09, 2025We have a new pope, and as always when that happens people wonder if he will follow or change the direction set by his predecessor. By his choice of name and the words of his first address to the world, Pope Leo has indicated that he will continue in the footsteps of Pope Francis, showing special care for the poor, the outcast, the struggling. Father William Grimm shares some thoughts on this.
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Duration: 00:06:08Third Sunday of Easter (C) May 4, 2025
May 03, 2025Peter was chosen to lead the disciples, to lead the Church, not because he was bright or well-spoken or a deep thinker. He was appointed to look after the Lord's flock because he loved the Lord.
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Duration: 00:07:20UCA News Weekly Summary, May 2, 2025
May 02, 2025Listen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule of around 10 minutes.
More than 50,000 Catholics were present for a requiem Mass for Pope Francis, the first pontiff to visit Timor-Leste since it declared independence in 1989. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Duration: 00:10:36Homilies: Second Sunday of Easter (C) Apr. 27, 2025
Apr 26, 2025God entrusts us with a great gift. Overcoming evil depends upon our willingness to forgive. It is up to us. We can forgive, or we can refuse to forgive. God will accept our decision.
About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.
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Duration: 00:06:32UCA News Weekly Summary, April 25, 2025
Apr 25, 2025Listen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule of around 10 minutes.
Catholic bishops have condemned the attack on tourists by militants in India’s Kashmir that killed 26 people and injured 17 others. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Duration: 00:10:46Homilies: Easter Sunday (C) Apr. 20, 2025
Apr 19, 2025On this Sunday, this Easter Sunday, we remember what every Sunday is because of what happened one Sunday long ago when the mission of the Church was born in the proclamation, "The Lord is risen!"
About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.
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Duration: 00:06:15UCA News Weekly Summary, April 18, 2025
Apr 18, 2025Listen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule of around 10 minutes.
Malaysian police are probing an incident involving some university students carrying a cross while dressed in robes similar to those worn by the Ku Klux Klan. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Duration: 00:10:35Observations: When will we start taking “No” for an answer?
Apr 18, 2025We are frequently asked, reminded, or even commanded to pray for an increase in vocations to the priesthood and religious life. But what if those prayers have already been answered in the negative? Perhaps it is time to quit wasting our breath on redundant prayers in spite of God’s clear answer and instead pray, think, and experiment to see what ministry might look like in the future. Father William Grimm shares some thoughts on this.
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Duration: 00:06:21Homilies: Good Friday Apr. 18, 2025
Apr 18, 2025Today is also a day of commitment to be a sign of God's love. God felt it worthwhile for Jesus to die in order that I might know love. My life is worth giving in the day-to-day as well as, if necessary, in death so that others may know that love.
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Duration: 00:05:39Homilies: Holy Thursday Apr. 17, 2025
Apr 16, 2025Our sharing Eucharist is a service -- a service to the world. We can wash its feet, and we can bring it with us as we share union with Christ. It's all one and the same.
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Duration: 00:06:12Homilies: Passion or Palm Sunday (C) Apr. 13, 2025
Apr 12, 2025We give thanks to Christ for uniting with us, embracing the fear, pain and death that are an ineradicable part of our lives. At the worst times of my life, Christ crucified is there with me.
About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.
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Duration: 00:06:16UCA News Weekly Summary, April 11, 2025
Apr 11, 2025Listen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule of around 10 minutes.
Catholic bishops have allied with Thai opposition parties to urge the government to abandon a bill that aims to legalize gambling. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Duration: 00:12:22Homilies: Fifth Sunday of Lent (C) Apr. 6, 2025
Apr 05, 2025Sin is serious, but the most important thing in the world is the love of God that forgives our sins. The scribes and Pharisees had forgotten that.
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Duration: 00:05:49UCA News Weekly Summary, April 4, 2025
Apr 04, 2025Listen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule of around 10 minutes.
Muslim leaders in Indonesia’s East Nusa Tenggara have apologized for displaying the flag of a banned Islamic group during a parade celebrating Eid festival. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Duration: 00:12:08Homilies: Fourth Sunday of Lent (C) Mar. 30, 2025
Mar 29, 2025Lent is a time for me to come to my senses and return to my Father. I do not need fancy words. I do not need to buy forgiveness with good deeds or intentions. All I need is to say, "Father, I have flunked."
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Duration: 00:05:27UCA News Weekly Summary, March 28, 2025
Mar 28, 2025Listen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule for around 10 minutes.
The 22-year-old survived a murderous attack at his workplace over an alleged desecration of Islamic texts. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Homilies: Third Sunday of Lent (C) Mar. 23, 2025
Mar 22, 2025We are celebrating Lent, the season of repentance. We reflect upon our sinfulness and do what we can with God's help to change our lives. Rather than punishing us, God gives us chance after chance to stop causing divine and human suffering.
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<... Duration: 00:05:18UCA News Weekly Summary, March 21, 2025
Mar 21, 2025Listen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule for around 10 minutes.
A court handed down jail terms on eight indigenous people in Indonesia’s Christian-majority East Nusa Tenggara province amid a land dispute with a company owned by a Catholic diocese. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia
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Duration: 00:11:13Homilies: Second Sunday of Lent (C) Mar. 16, 2025
Mar 15, 2025Lent is a chance to live our true citizenship. In prayer, fasting and sacrifice, we weaken our ties to the world. We withdraw from our citizenship in this world in order to focus upon our true home, our true citizenship.
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Duration: 00:06:18UCA News Weekly Summary, March 14, 2025
Mar 14, 2025Listen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule around 10 minutes.
Christians have mourned a Protestant bishop’s son, who was killed by men who also gang raped female tourists in southern India. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Duration: 00:10:56Observations: TA Lenten reflection: We cannot escape sin, but we can be delivered
Mar 13, 2025In Lent we reflect upon sin in our lives. We might not notice, however, that besides being personal actions or failures, sin is also a pervasive reality from which we cannot escape even when we want to. Only Christ can free us from that reality and cleanse us for life with God.. Father William Grimm shares some thoughts on this.
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About the Speaker: Father William Grimm, a native of New York City, is a missioner and presbyter who since 1973 has served in Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia. A graduate of the Co...
Duration: 00:07:31Homilies: First Sunday of Lent (C) Mar. 9, 2025
Mar 08, 2025It is Lent. It is good to begin the season by reflecting upon the temptations that Jesus faced and that we face that hinder us in living the Baptism commitment we renew at Easter.
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Duration: 00:06:06UCA News Weekly Summary, March 7, 2025
Mar 07, 2025Listen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule for around 10 minutes.
Education officials in Catholic-majority nation say student abuse will not be tolerated after two recent scandals. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Duration: 00:10:41Homilies: Ash Wednesday Mar. 5, 2025
Mar 04, 2025About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.
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Welcome to Lent, a time to reflect on our ashiness and our salvation. From now till the start of the Sacred Triduum we will remember that we are Cinderella sitting in sin.
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