By Matters India Reporter Pilar, Aug 29, 2023: The participants of a seminar on the “Basics of interreligious dialogue” have resolved to organize parish level programs to create awareness among the Goan Catholics about the need to interact with people of other religions. They plan to spend “quality time” withContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kochi, Aug 24, 2023: A movement that leads the dissidents in the archdiocese of Ernakulam-Angamaly has denied reports that four priests have been ordered out of a seminary for refusing to adopt the uniform mode of the liturgy. “Those priests are still in the seminary andContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, Aug 23, 2023: Jesuit Archbishop Cyril Vasil, the papal representative appointed to resolve the liturgy dispute in the Archdiocese of Ernakulam-Angamaly, has left for Rome after completing the first phase of his mission, says a press statement. The delegate will apprise Pope Francis and theContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, Aug 20, 2023: Archbishop Andrews Thazhath of Trichur, the apostolic administrator of Ernakulam-Angamaly, says disobedience to the Pope’s delegate would mean ouster from the Catholic Church. The Pope has through his delegate announced the final decision on the long-standing controversy over Mass in the archdiocese,Continue Reading
By John Pulinthanam Below is a letter from a senior Catholic layman of the Ernakulam-Angamaly archdiocese to Jesuit Archbishop Cyril Vasil, who has come to Kerala as the Pope’s delegate to resolve the dispute over the mode of offering Mass. The Catholic feels being pushed from disappointment to serious doubtsContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kochi, Aug 15, 2023: Jesuit Archbishop Cyril Vasil, papal delegate to the archdiocese of Ernakulam-Angamaly, on August 15 urged the faithful to obey Pope Francis and avoid troublemakers who oppose the uniform mode of celebrating Mass. “Are you with the Pope or against him?” this wasContinue Reading
By Joseph Victor Edwin New Delhi, Aug 14, 2023: Islamic Studies Association, a New Delhi-based group of Christian scholars on Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, has celebrated the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples by organizing two webinars on Islamic mysticism. The first seminar on August 9 was on “MysticismContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Bengaluru, Aug 13, 2023: The first meeting of Christian institutes of higher education — religious and secular — has stressed highlighting the positive aspects of religions to foster communal harmony and peace in India. This is necessary in a country like India, which, though secular inContinue Reading
By LiCAS.news Manila, July 9, 2023: Pope Francis on July 9 announced he would hold a consistory for the creation of 21 new cardinals, including the bishops of Malaysia and Hong Kong. “I would like to announce that next 30 September, I will hold a Consistory for the appointment ofContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Bengaluru, July 8, 2023: Pope Francis on July 8 appointed Father Ferdinand Dkhar, as the bishop of Jowai in the northeastern Indian state of Meghalaya. The 59-year-old bishop elect is currently the administrator of the diocese of Jowai. Bishop elect Dkhar was born February 26, 1962,Continue Reading