By M K George Rome, Dec 8, 2022: A Malayalam saying goes like this: “Even when a son beats up his mother, there will be two factions – one that supports the son and the other, the Mother.” That seems to be the case with the ending of the 140-dayContinue Reading
By Virginia Saldanha Mumbai, Dec 3, 2022: Recently the Jesuit run “America Magazine” interviewed Pope Francis on various topical issues, among them was the question regarding what he would say to women who are already serving in the Church, but who also feel strongly the call to be a priestContinue Reading
By chhotebhai Kanpur, Nov 19, 2022: By “conversion” I here mean the explicit act of baptizing a non-Christian to make such a person Christian. We know that the right-wing Hindutva brigade has always been against religious conversion, thinly veiled as “forceful conversion.” Several anti-conversion laws have been passed in variousContinue Reading
By Cedric Prakash Ahmedabad, Nov 7, 2022: November 3, 2022, was a special day indeed! On that day, Pope Francis began a four-day historic visit to the Kingdom of Bahrain, where he was given an exceptionally warm welcome! From the time he arrived in Bahrain, he set the tone ofContinue Reading
By Don Aguiar Mumbai, Nov 4, 2022: Faced with what may be the deepest recession in a century, a cost-of-living crisis, a migration crisis and energy blackouts, to most people, these issues might sound like they need more urgent attention than a 12-day-long junket in the desert. Yet the mediaContinue Reading
By Chacko Antony Sahibganj, Oct 27, 2022: Soul searching queries like, “Whither Kerala Church?” Or “Is it withering away?” are troubling many Christians in and outside Kerala. I am one of them. As a Keralite, I was born in the Syro-Malabar Church. As a teenager in 1950s, while serving asContinue Reading
By Yogendra Yadav New Delhi, Oct 20, 2022: Every public debate in our country involving English language serves to illustrate an apartheid mindset. Otherwise reasonable persons make logic stand on its head. Presumptions replace experience. Anecdotes outweigh evidence. Advocates of radical changes in every walk of life turn out toContinue Reading
By M K George Rome, Oct 6, 2022: In one of the boldest and most lucid articulations on the Kerala Catholic ‘friendship with the BJP,’ Father Kuriakose Mundadan (Satyadeepam September 29, 2022) described it as BJP fishing in troubled waters. His analysis is simple and straightforward. With the knowledge thatContinue Reading
By Lavina D’Souza Belgaum, Sept 29, 2022: While we were on the school playground, we often heard the coach shout the motto: “United we stand, divided we fall.” His loud voice drilled into us that strong message that in order to win we had to be united. Today, in theContinue Reading
By George Jacob Kochi, Sept 21, 2022: National daily New Indian Express recently reported an incident which had the Kerala High Court chastise the attitude of the “new-gen” towards marriage and family. A man abandoned his wife and three daughters after nine years of marriage subsequent to an alleged affairContinue Reading