Category: Church

The Catholic Church in Cambodia.

KOMISO Clinic #2

On February 8 (scroll back to that date for more pictures) Bishop Olivier blessed the new medical clinic of the Korean Mission Society. In the pictures above he ceremonially cuts the ribbon to open the new building and all the guests went in to see the new facility which is quite nice. Then Bishop Olivier went through the building to sprinkle and bless the different departments with holy water.

The building behind the clinic is a residence for Korean doctors, nurses, and medical staff who will come to work in the clinic along with local medical professionals. In Cambodia, the top floor is often covered and left open, as a meeting place and activity area but also to provide a layer of open air insulation from the heat of the sun.

New Church Building

There was more substantial progress in evidence this evening when we went to the 5:00 PM mass at St. Joseph Church. Before there was a lot of preparation and clearing the site but now actually construction is taking place. It looks like they are laying a concrete foundation or maybe even the flooring of a basement.

Notable Quotes

Shouldn’t we be wondering how it is that we go on arming ourselves to deliver death to unseen enemies while our society is dying in other ways at our own hands as a result?

And now our so-called representatives and senators tell us that those social things are too expensive for them to allow while they have pumped the military budget up and up, over and over, for all the years of our lives?

Sr. Joan Chittister, OSB, commenting on Sante Fe Archbishop John Wester’s pastoral letter calling for the abolition of all nuclear weapons.