New Delhi: The Delhi administration on July 18 canceled an annual walking pilgrimage carrying Ganges River water. “The Kanwar Yatra has been banned in Uttarakhand, but despite this, there is a risk of the spread of the virus due to crowding or taking out processions, in view of which thisContinue Reading
By Lissy Maruthanakuzhy Panaji: A book to mark the Year of St Joseph hails the foster father of Jesus as the shadow of the Heavenly Father. “The reading of the book will help us to deepen our love for this great saint and to seek his powerful intercession and emulateContinue Reading
Vatican City: Pope Francis has delivered pallium to 34 archbishops, including four from India. The pallium symbolizes an archbishop’s unity with the Pope and his authority and responsibility to care for the flock the pope entrusted to him. The Pope blessed the palliums after they were brought up from theContinue Reading
Guwahati: The Rainbow Home of the Seven Sisters (RHoSS) aims to provide a home for homeless transgender women and help them build a better future. The new facility – located in Guwahati, Assam’s commercial capital– is the brainchild of Sister Prema Chowallur, a member of the Sisters of the CrossContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi: Every third Jesuit who succumbed to Covid-19 in the world since June 2020 was Indian, according to a list circulated by Father Arturo Sosa, superior general of the Society of Jesus. The list, sent with a letter to all heads of 83 provinces, six independentContinue Reading
By Sujata Jena Bhubaneswar: A Capuchin holistic welfare center in Tamil Nadu, southern India, plans to organize another round of online program to help reinvent religious leadership in the post-Covid era. The June 28-30 webinar aims to help leaders of religious congregations and their collaborators, says “Thalir” (bud) director CapuchinContinue Reading
Rome: The Vatican has taken steps to better regulate Catholic lay religious movements by imposing term limits on their leaders and requiring internal elections to be representative of their memberships. The Vatican’s laity office on June 11 cracked down on the largely unregulated world of international associations of the faithfulContinue Reading
Vatican City: Pope Francis has appointed Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle as a new member of the Vatican body that supports the Eastern Catholic Churches throughout the world. The cardinal is the sole addition to the Congregation for the Eastern Churches, which also assists the Latin-rite Catholic dioceses of the MiddleContinue Reading
In an interview with Vatican News, the Australian Cardinal who turns 80 today relives the experience he had during thirteen months of detention recounted in his book “Prison Journal”. “It helped me to live my sufferings by associating them with those of Jesus. I have always believed that God wasContinue Reading
Chiavenna: An Italian nun who was stabbed to death by three teenage girls was beatified, after Pope Francis declared her a martyr, killed “in hatred of the faith.” Sister Maria Laura Mainetti was beatified on June 6, the eleventh anniversary of her murder, in Chiavenna, the northern Italian town. PresidingContinue Reading