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One year during Advent, our parish priest invited us to write down on a slip of paper a word that named something that is keeping us from getting closer to God. He suggested it might be a fear, a resentment, or an attitude that shuts us off from the loveContinue Reading

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Dhaka: Pope Francis urged Bangladeshi priests and nuns to resist the “terrorism of gossip” that can tear religious communities apart, delivering one of his trademark, zinger-filled spontaneous speeches to the country’s Catholic leadership on Saturday at the close of an otherwise tense and diplomatically fraught Asian tour. As he hasContinue Reading

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By Jugal Ranjit and Smita Nayak Bhubaneswar: A state-level seminar on Dalit Christian Empowerment organized here on Dec 1 with twin objectives to address the Dalit concerns and promote their wellbeing in Odisha. Father Manoj Kumar Nayak, secretary, Commission for Scheduled Caste and Backward Caste of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar archdiocese, one ofContinue Reading

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Manila: In his first pastoral exhortation as head of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines, Archbishop Romulo Valles of Davao announced that the 2018 calendar will be dedicated to the clergy and consecrated persons. The year, he said, envisions that clergy and consecrated persons become “renewed” servant-leaders “who careContinue Reading

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Panaji: Following resistance from the faithful in Sancoale and neighbouring villages to the Church’s decision to shift the venue of the feast of St Joseph Vaz from the sanctuary to the considerably larger site of the old Our Lady of Health Church, archbishop Filipe Neri Ferrao after listening to theirContinue Reading

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By Matters India Reporter Bhubaneswar: Archbishop John Barwa of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar, Odisha has appointed a priest to document and prepare dossier containing documents for Kandhamal martyrs. In his December 3 appointment letter, he named Father Purushottam Nayak for the said task. “It is ripe time now to collect the documents andContinue Reading

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A Bangladeshi Catholic priest who was abducted in the north-east on Nov 27, ahead of the visit of Pope Francis to the country, was found alive in Sylhet city on Friday. Father Walter William Rozario is said to have fled from his kidnappers and got in touch with his family,Continue Reading