By Robin Gomes Rome, Feb 17, 2022: India’s Latin-rite bishops are planning a series of events to celebrate the life and holiness of the country’s first layman and martyr who will be officially declared a saint in 3 months’ time. They are holding up the figure of Blessed Devasahayam asContinue Reading
By Christopher Wells Vatican City, Feb 16, 2022: Pope Francis has modified canon law for both the Latin Church and the Eastern Churches, changing the areas of competence for various bodies within the universal Church. This was done through a new motu proprio (on his own initiative) published February 15Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Panaji, Feb 12, 2022: The Cloistered Carmel at Chicalim in the Archdiocese of Goa-Daman on February 12 celebrated 75 years of its foundation with a concelebrated Mass. Archbishop Filipe Neri Ferrao of Goa-Daman, presiding over the Eucharist, appreciated the Carmelite community saying, “So many people haveContinue Reading
By Robancy A Helen Trichy, Feb 8, 2022: Dalit Catholic groups in India have welcomed Apostolic Nuncio Archbishop Leopoldo Girelli’s appreciation of their demands and his support to the Church’s Dalit policy. ‘I appreciate the immediate response of the apostolic nuncio to India,” Mathew Gnanapragasam, convener of the Tamil NaduContinue Reading
By Purushottam Nayak, Simonbadi, Feb 3, 2022: Three survivors of the worst anti-Christian violence in modern India have been ordained as Capuchin priests. Bishop Aplinar Senapati of Rayagada February 1 ordained Deacons Surya Kanth Mallick, Alphonse Kumar Balliarsingh and Ajay Balliarsingh at Mary Mata Parish, Simonbadi in Odisha state’s KandhamalContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Jan 31, 2022: A Dominican priest was stabbed to death in Vietnam and a Protestant pastor was shot dead in Pakistan on the same day. Father Giuse (Joseph) Trần Ngọc Thanh was killed in a knife attack in a mission area in Vietnam onContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kanpur, Jan 30, 2022: A laity group in India has urged the Vatican to extend the primary synthesis stage of the Rome Synod for another three more months. “The third wave of corona pandemic is sweeping across the world. As such it is impossible for peopleContinue Reading
By Robancy A Helen Viruthachalam, Jan 30, 2022: Father A. Pitchaimuthu, a practitioner of Siddha medicine famous for composing the Catholic liturgy in folk style, died January 30 in Tamil Nadu, southern India. He was 82. The death of the priest, who was also an educationist, occurred at 5:30 amContinue Reading
By Irudhaya Jothi Dindigul, Jan 26, 2022: Jesuit canonist and lawyer and a former professor in Delhi’s Vidyajyoti theologate died of Covid-19 January 26 in Dindigul town in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. He was 69. Father Jeyaseelan Thomas Barnabas suffered a massive heart attack and died atContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Panaji, Jan 25, 2022: The Archdiocese of Goa and Daman has celebrated the Sunday of the Word of God. During his homily on January 23 at St. Michael Church in Taleigao, local prelate Archbishop Filipe Neri Ferraro reminded the faithful of the importance of their baptismalContinue Reading