By Ladislaus Louis D’Souza Mumbai: A comment posted outside Holy Family Church, a Jesuit-run parish in Andheri East, Mumbai, says: “The caged bird sang and his spirit soared.” But did it, really? The truth is that Jesuit jailbird Stan Swamy has a long way to go before his soul canContinue Reading
By Rose Cherian Vachaparampil Is this the beginning of the end of the world? Life was flowing quickly but came to a sudden stop. A great fear enveloped all. It was as if Revelation 18: 22 had become a reality. The unseen virus has traumatized everyone. The lifestyle promoted byContinue Reading
By Ram Puniyani Mumbai: One Hindu woman in Kanpur, UP, lodged a complaint against her Muslim husband on the charge that he forcibly converted her. As it turned out she was forced to sign the FIR by Hindutva groups and she went to the police station, turned hostile and statedContinue Reading
By A J Philip New Delhi: If St. Stephen was the protomartyr in the history of Christianity, Father Stanislaus Lourduswamy (April 26, 1937 – July 5, 2021), popularly known as Fr Stan Swamy, is the latest. His was a murder, pure and simple, executed by the Indian state, because heContinue Reading
By chhotebhai Kanpur: This piece has been inspired by two recent events. This morning (July 4), I read that “nice guy” Amir Khan was divorcing Kiran Rao, his second wife, of over a decade. The previous day I had read a Vatican News report by Devin Watkins that Pope FrancisContinue Reading
By Ram Puniyani Mumbai: One will be amazed to compare the India of today with the same a decade ago. BJP’s getting majority in the Lok Sabha (2014) has changed the political, social and economic scenario in adverse direction. The rising prices, the free fall of economy with GDP atContinue Reading
By chhotebhai Kanpur: Is Pope Francis actually getting through to India? Is his message coming across? The indices are to the contrary. Has any bishop in India written a pastoral letter on papal documents like Vos Estis Lux Mundi (promulgated on 7/5/19), regarding clerical sexual abuse; Fratelli Tutti (3/10/20) onContinue Reading
Some say Father Stan Swami is a ‘torch-bearer of the Indian Constitution’. The government says he is an instigator of violence, an anarchist who conspires, in tandem with the Maoists, to overthrow the government. As per Aristotle, the truth should lie in between. What lies in between in this caseContinue Reading
By Cedric Prakash Ahmedabad: It was the virtual ‘midnight knock’! The irony was that the knock took place in broad daylight, and expectedly in a blatantly unjust, uncivilised and unconstitutional manner. On June 6, 2018, Sudhir Dhawale, Surendra Gadling, Mahesh Raut, Shoma Sen and Rona Wilson were arrested from theirContinue Reading
By chhotebhai By Kanpur: Lest one go into sixes and sevens over this title; it was occasioned by a recent headline in the Times of India that read “New Vatican Law criminalizes sexual abuse by priests, laity.” It was referring to Decalogue Six, the sixth commandment, “You shall not commitContinue Reading