Ten memorable Catholic moments from 2016
2016-12-27
From the murder of Fr Hamel to Cardinal Sarah’s ad orientem appealContinue Reading
Sushma Swaraj calls on Pope Francis at Vatican
2016-09-05
New Delhi: External Affairs minister Sushma Swaraj on Monday called on Pope Francis at the Vatican. “Stronger ties with the Holy See. EAM @SushmaSwaraj called on @Pontifex at the Vatican, on her final day in Rome,” External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Vikas Swarup tweeted. Sushma Swaraj visited Rome to attend theContinue Reading
India proud of recognition accorded to Mother Teresa: Mukherjee
2016-09-04
New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday expressed happiness over the forthcoming canonisation of Mother Teresa and said every Indian will take pride in the recognition being accorded to her for service to humanity and God. “Every citizen of Indiawill take pride in the recognition being accorded to Mother TeresaContinue Reading
Pope hails volunteers on eve of Mother Teresa sainthood
2016-09-04
Vatican City: Pope Francis on Saturday denounced what he called the modern-day sin of indifference to hunger, exploitation and other suffering, while commending the example of Mother Teresa on the eve of a sainthood ceremony for the nun who cared for India’s destitute. Choosing “to not see hunger, disease, exploitedContinue Reading
Mother Teresa: The humble sophisticate
2016-09-04
Vatican City: Mother Teresa, who died in Kolkata, India, 19 years ago, will be formally declared a Saint of the Catholic Church by Pope Francis at a Vatican ceremony on Sunday. David Willey, who has reported from Rome for the BBC during five decades, tells how he once spent anContinue Reading
India needs a million Mother Teresas; celebrating her Sainthood isn’t enough
2016-09-03
Appropriately no doubt, Pope Francis himself offered a simple pathway to understanding Mother Teresa’s lifetime of work. She ran in essence, he said, a “field hospital”. True, the war on poverty will not be won from a field hospital, and nobody should expect it to. But those wounded by theirContinue Reading
Maharashtra church to be renamed after ‘Saint Mother Teresa’
2016-09-01
Palghar: When the world celebrates the proclamation of Mother Teresa as a ‘Saint’ on Sunday, September 4, by Pope Francis in the Vatican, a church in Maharashtra will also have its own memorable celebrations. On that day, ‘The Blessed Mother Teresa Church’ in Virar town here, around 60 km northContinue Reading
Teresa canonization: Hindu group sees red over govt team
2016-08-31
RSS described the move as a “political decision by an elected government”Continue Reading
On Mother Teresa’s 106th birthday, tracing her journey in Kolkata
2016-08-26
Kolkata: In Kolkata, Mother Teresa has left her touch beyond the walls of the Mother House and the centres she started across the city to nurse the “poorest of the poor”. Her legacy survives not just in the Sisters who took up her vow of serving the needy and theContinue Reading
Kolkatans believe Mother Teresa’s work made her a ‘saint’
2016-08-26
Mother Teresa will be canonised by the Catholic Church in a week-long grand ceremony in Rome on September 4, 2016. A contingent of nuns, priests, volunteers, followers, academics and government officials will be travelling to Rome to witness the ceremony. When the mass for canonisation of the blessed Teresa ofContinue Reading