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CLS Patron Celebrates His Sacerdotal

CLS Patron, His Grace Archbishop Emeritus Murphy Pakiam celebrated 50 years as a priest.

His Grace was ordained priest on10 May 1964. On 1 April 1995, he was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Kuala Lumpur. By 24 May 2003 he was made Archbishop of Kuala Lumpur. Read more »

Eulogy On CLS Founding President Cecilia Fernandez (1922–2014) By Lancelot Rozario

Dear Friends, We are all here today with a common purpose.

We are here to bid farewell to our sister Cecilia Fernandez, a loving mother and grandmother.

All of us got to know her at some time or the other during the 92 years that she was around. Read more »

Archbishop Pakiam Remains In Office

Archbishop Emeritus Pakiam will continue to be in office and will now serve as the Administrator of the Archdiocese of Kuala Lumpur.

The college of consultors elected Archbishop Emeritus Murphy Pakiam as the Administrator of the Archdiocese at their meeting announced by Rev. Fr. Jestus Pereira, the Chancellor of the Archdiocese. Read more »

CLS Members Gets Together

Members of the Catholic Lawyers Society, Kuala Lumpur (CLS)  got together at the home of Datuk & Datin Watson Peters on Saturday, 14 December 2013 for fellowship.

The annual event saw the presence of its spiritual director, Rt. Rev Fr. Jestus Pereira, Rt Rev. Fr. Clarence Dass and Tan Sri Lim Leong Seng, Archdiocese Administrator. Read more »

CLS Retreat 2013

The Catholic Lawyers Society had its annual retreat recently from 9-11 August 2013 at the Marist Brothers Champagnat Youth Centre over the Hari Raya Aidilfitri long weekend.

The theme of the retreat was Mark 6:31 - 'Come away to some lonely place all by yourselves and rest for a while' and featured Fr. Clarence Devadass as our retreat master. Read more »

CLS Committee 2013/2014 Introduced To The Archbishop

The recently elected CLS Committee Members had an audience with His Grace, the Archbishop of Kuala Lumpur at the Archbishop’s residence, Cardign House on 22 July 2013.

The meeting was preceded with vespers followed by a bountiful dinner and fellowship. After dinner, President Viola D’Cruz introduced her new committee to the Archbishop. Read more »

Archbishop Marino - Let’s Dialogue

The Catholic Lawyers’ Society (CLS) called on His Excellency Archbishop Joseph Marino, the Apostolic Nuncio of the Holy See to Malaysia at his residence in Kuala Lumpur.

The CLS delegation was led by its President, Viola Decruz, accompanied by the Society’s advisor Sir Dato Peter Mooney and 3 committee members. President Viola briefed His Excellency of the role and objective of the CLS. Read more »

CLS Celebrates Advisor’s 90th Birthday

The Society recently celebrated the 90th Birthday of Sir Dato Dr. Peter Mooney, the Society's advisor. Dato Peter was born in Donegal, Ireland on 22 May 1923. He graduated from University of Glasgow, United Kingdom.

The Irish barrister came to Sarawak as Crown Counsel in 1953. He left as Sarawak State Attorney General in 1961. For his services to the Church in Malaysia, he was conferred the honour of Knight of the Order of St. Gregory the Great by His Holiness Pope John Paul II on 26th October 2003. Read more »

Appeal’s Court Hear Interveners’ Appeal In Herald Case

7 interveners had their appeal heard before the Court of Appeal on 8th May 2013 against the decision of Madam Justice Lau Bee Lan who dismissed their application to intervene in the Herald’s High Court Judicial Review action (‘JR Application’).

On 31st December 2009, Justice Lau had inter alia declared that the Archbishop had the constitutional right to use the word “Allah” in the Herald Catholic weekly periodical. Read more »

Viewpoint: Why The Church Has To Speak Up

Roger Tan in his comment that appeared in The Sunday Star on 21/4/2013 has taken exception to statements by the clergy that inter alia ‘make fun’ of the government.

Roger seems to suggest that “lately the pulpit has been misused for political purposes”.

He supports his comment by reference to 4 incidents. These are: Read more »

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