By Matters India Reporter Bengaluru, May 3, 2019: The ten-year-old gender policy of the Indian Catholic Church has proved to be a failed promise, women theologians say. A great majority of women’s servitude betrays male privilege that is normalized in the families and in the Church. “This situation makes usContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, May 1, 2019: Pope Francis on May 1 transferred Bishop Derek Fernandes of Karwar to Belgaum as its new prelate, according to a press note from the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India headquarters in New Delhi. The announcement was made at noon in Rome,Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Bengaluru, April 25, 2019: India’s Catholic theologians on April 25 assembled in Bengaluru to analyze the current situation in the country and evolve relevant responses to help the Church address modern problems. The 42 annual meeting of the Indian Theological Association (ITA) at the National BiblicalContinue Reading
Nirmala Carvalho Mumbai, April 24, 2019: Retired priests are “examples of burning furnaces of prayer” for the Church, says India’s leading prelate. Cardinal Oswald Gracias, Archbishop of Bombay, celebrated Easter Morning Mass with the 23 retired priests at the Clergy Home in Mumbai. “All of our priests follow Jesus: FollowContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Bengaluru, April 24, 2019: All the Latin rite dioceses in India will organize special prayers to show solidarity with the Church and people of Sri Lanka. “To pledge our closeness and solidarity with the victims of the multiple bomb blasts that took place in Sri LankaContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Rome, April 21, 2019: Consolata Sister Eugenia Bonetti, who wrote the Way of the Cross to pray at Rome’s Colosseum on Good Friday, says it helped highlight sorrows of women, youth and those without hope. “I found it as an opportunity to bring to the Colosseum,Continue Reading
By Jacob Peenikaparambil Indore, April 21, 2019: An Indore-based movement of value education for peace has helped hundreds of Christians to rediscover Jesus and reinvent themselves and their works in the past one decade. “My expectation of having a deeper encounter with Jesus and understanding his mission and recommitting myselfContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Rome, April 18, 2019: “Baptized and sent: The Church of Christ on Mission in the World,” is the theme announced by Pope Francis on Mission Sunday 2018 to commemorate the Centenary of the Promulgation of the Apostolic letter Maximum Illud by Pope Benedict XV in 2019.Continue Reading
Former actress Chin-Chin Gutierrez is now a fully consecrated nun. As mentioned on a viral Facebook post dated March 29, the former actress-environmentalist now goes by the name “Sister Lourdes.” Chin-Chin was consecrated at the Carmelite Convent. The daughter of botanist Dr. Hermes Gutierrez and former Franciscan nun-turned-painter Cecilia Arnaldo,Continue Reading
Matters India Reporter Kolkata, April 7, 2019: A Church in South Bengal has installed an open air Stations of the Cross as run up to the upcoming Easter celebrations scheduled for Sunday 21 April 2019. Bishop Salvadore Lobo of Baruipur blessed the Stations of The Cross installed at Sacred HeartContinue Reading