On Food & Culture
So good that the Catholic Church is visibly fighting in to abolish the death penalty. The Texas Catholic bishops are members of many coalitions, including the Texas Moratorium Network to stop the killing. The Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty is doing wonderful work, …
Houston’s financially poor neighborhood, Pecan Park, has free wireless Internet access right now. Hurrah! And it is driving “respect for the free market” ignoramuses into convulsions…..as though for-profit companies have made any effort at all to serve poor households. Will Reed runs the not-for-profit “Technology …
Was awakened by a flood of loud waililng prayers from about 6 LOUD loudspeakers atop mosques in downtown Yogyakarta. Sometimes the prayers are taped and sometimes they are live. This happens 5 times each day, at 4:30 AM; 12:30 PM; 3:30 PM; 6:30 PM and …
I was met at the Yogyakarta airport by Mr. Emmanuel Surono who is the Vice President of WACC Asia, (AR-WACC). He says that the AR-WACC general assembly is held every three years and usually about 120 members attend.He deftly drove through the buzzing motorcycles that …
Suprising to me, being the first time in the Kuala Lumpur airport, to be greeted by squeaky clean floors, spectacular modern design, in both airport stations, connected by fast and efficient monorail. The highway to the downtown was also clean, manicured with flowering shrubs. During …
Aboard one of the new Lufthansa airbus jets, with state-of the art seats, AC plug for my laptop and wireless Internet, this is the first time that I surf the net while flying. In one hour I will land in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Onboard wireless …
Mary’s blog points to the civil disobedience screenings of “Eyes on the prize.” Let’s all support this movement. WACC is convening a meeting in France this September to deal with copyright and intellectual property rights issues as they relate specifically to Church liturgy and worship. …
Just arrived in Bangkok and will get a good early turn in and hopefully a good night’s rest. In Manila my host was Augustine Loorthusamy who was WACC-Asia Secretary from 1987 to 1993. He is now working in Malaysia but kindly helped to organize my …
This 24-hour silence is due to my inability to access the Internet. Am in Manila where among three warm visits, I visited Ms. Teresita Z. (Terry) Hermano, whom you may remember as WACC London staff. She is now at the Communications Foundation for Asia and …
Just woke up. Iâts 5:30 AM and Iâm still in Taipei. Last night my Philippine Air 6:30 PM flight was at first delayed, then cancelled due to the dense fog that descended on and covered Taipei, which sits on a basin surrounded by mountains. Havoc …