By Annmary Andrews Newfoundland, Sept 7, 2020: I arrived in the Diocese of Roseau of the Commonwealth of Dominica, in the West Indies, on December 8, 2018. It was in response to a call for volunteers by the Presentation Sisters leadership from Newfoundland and Labrador Unit, during the tercentenary ofContinue Reading
By Varghese Alengaden Indore, Sept 7, 2020: People, in general, live with the fear of the laws and law enforcing agencies and courts who have the power to punish them for violating the laws. They are also afraid of the religious laws and the priestly class who punish them inContinue Reading
By Navin Noronha Mumbai, Sept 5, 2020: It isn’t often that one gets to say I witnessed real change in my lifetime. In many ways, I still struggle to wrap my head around the events of September 6, 2018. On that wondrous day, despite several roadblocks, the Supreme Court ofContinue Reading
By Carolina De Jesus Jerusalem, Sept 4, 2020: I was born six years after my parents’ marriage. My parents were so desperate to have a child that they prayed intensely to God with the help of Saint Jude, the patron saint of the ‘impossible’ cases, and Saint Clara. My motherContinue Reading
By Narendra Pachkhédé Toronto, Sept 2, 2020: The exchange between the little prince and the fox from the classic 20th century post-war French fable, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s Le Petit Prince, holds the key to how two men – Satyajit Ray and Fr Gaston Roberge – met every Sunday at 9Continue Reading
By Varghese Alengaden Indore, Aug 31, 2020: Jesuit Father MK George in his blog “Are you part of mob lynching India’s democracy?” published in Matters India on August 30 proposed two practical steps not to be part of lynching mob. They were, (1) reading critically situation in the nation andContinue Reading
M K George S J Rome, Aug 30, 2020: For an ordinary Indian or an observer of India, lynching is no big breaking news. According to The Quint, 113 people have been lynched in India since 2015. What really happens in a lynching scene? As proven in all the cases,Continue Reading
By Lourduraj Ignacimuthu Vijayawada, Aug 28, 2020: Jesuit Father Gaston Roberge, who died on August 26, had a vision for communication ministry and for the Jesuit communicators. He founded Chitrabani and Educational Multi-Media Research Centre at Kolkata in the late 1970s. What is Chitrabani for filmmakers or those who buddingContinue Reading
By Sneha Satyan Bengaluru, Aug 27, 2020: On August 24 I received a video through WhatsApp. The title of the video is: Kashmiri Ladki (girl). The young girl’s narration is touching, moving, thought-provoking and challenging. Here is the English translation of her Hindi narration. “As-salamu Alaikum! I am Fatima, 16-year-old.Continue Reading
By Francis Sunil Rosario Kolkata, Aug 26, 2020: Mother Teresa, now St. Teresa of Calcutta, contributed immensely to the growth of the Church and its mission. One of her major contributions was to renew priestly spirituality through Corpus Christi Movement for the priests throughout the world. The movement is oneContinue Reading