By Matters India Reporter Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 14, 2023: Bethany Father Mathai Kadavil has been appointed as the new bishop of the Khadki diocese of the Syro-Malankara Church. The appointment was announced in the St Mary’s Cathedral, Pattom, Thiruvananthapuram December 12. Earlier, Pope Francis approved the name of the 60-year-old priestContinue Reading

By Sujata Jena Bhubaneswar, April 30, 2022: Father Anthony Packiam, the parish priest of the Christ the King church under the archdiocese of Madurai in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, started washing the feet of marginalized people decades before Pope Francis decreed that women’s feet could be washedContinue Reading

By Jessy Joseph New Delhi: Bishop Jacob Barnabas of Gurgaon died of post Covid-19 complications at noon on August 26 in a private hospital in New Delhi. He was 60. Bishop Barnabas is the fifth Catholic prelate in India to die of Covid-19 and its complications. Bishop Barnabas was admittedContinue Reading

By Frank Fitzpatrick Philadelphia, Aug 20, 2020: When they glimpse her through the fog of approaching death, her cherubic face encased in a gleaming white habit, terminally ill patients at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia, US, sometimes mistake Sister Jocelyn Edathil for an angel. They are not entirely wrong. TheContinue Reading

By Fr Raymond de Souza Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 5, 2020: In 2019 we became more familiar with the life and mission of St John Henry Newman. Perhaps in 2020 we might learn something about Mar Ivanios, called the “Newman of the East” by his people. This year the Syro-Malankara Church, theContinue Reading

Thiruvananthapuram, Dec. 18, 2018: The relatives of a young priest joined the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church to allege foul play in the mysterious death of a young priest a week ago. Church members have demanded that the people responsible for the 34-year-old priest’s death be brought before justice. It was presumedContinue Reading