To The Ecclesiastical Heads of the Catholic Church in India 1st October 2021 AN OPEN LETTER ON SYNODALITY Respected Cardinals, Archbishops, Bishops, Apostolic and Diocesan Administrators, Peace of Christ! A week from now our dearly beloved Pope Francis will solemnly open the proceedings for the 16 th Ordinary General AssemblyContinue Reading
By Cedric Prakash Ahmedabad: Decoding is never child’s play! But when one is entrusted with the task of sifting and sieving the past, present and future, the fact from the fiction, the possibility from the impossibility, the probability from the improbability, the simple from the complex, then one is notContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kanpur: The Gandhians of Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh have expressed shock and dismay after authorities kept the enclosure of Mahatma Gandhi’s statue locked on January 30, the Mahatma’s martyrdom day. They sat in protest on the dirty pavement outside the enclosure and raised slogans of “Shame,Continue Reading
By chhotebhai Kanpur: In the light of the recent appointments of bishops and archbishops, this question may seem audacious. But it is not altogether without merit. Do we really need bishops, what is their role in our lives, and if at all we do need them, then who should decideContinue Reading
Lucknow: A Catholic delegation led by Bishop Raphy Manjaly of Allahabad has met R K Tiwari, chief secretary of the government of Uttar Pradesh, to clarify doubts regarding the re-opening of places of worship in the northern Indian state from October 15. The confusion arose because of the differences inContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Aug 1, 2020: A Catholic laity forum in India has urged the papal representative in the country to set up a seven-member committee to probe various allegations against Bishop K A William of Mysore. The committee members “should be mandated to make public theirContinue Reading
By chhotebhai Kanpur, April 8, 2020: As the secretary of the Legion of Mary in my parish 51 years ago it was my lot to give a commentary on the Holy Week liturgy. That got me thinking on what was so unique about Jesus’ rather “limited” suffering on the cross.Continue Reading
By chhotebhai Kanpur, March 26, 2020: “God has fled from Mecca and the Vatican…Why donate to religious places when they have closed their doors to us in our time of need?. At last my dream is realised, of spirituality without religion.” Provocative statements in the light of the Coronavirus! ShouldContinue Reading
By chhotebhai Kanpur, Dec 2, 2019: Christmas is a time when devout Christians use the invocation “Maranatha.” It is the concluding line in the Bible that means “Come Lord Jesus” (Rev 22:20). It is most appropriate for Advent. This phrase is earlier used by St Paul in his benediction toContinue Reading
By chhotebhai Kanpur, Nov 19, 2019: What a word! My word, it isn’t. Ask our very own wordsmith – Shashi Tharoor. So why did I choose such an obnoxious sounding word? It is actually a combination of three words – Grape, Gripe and Rape; with which I have taken poeticContinue Reading