By Lissy Maruthanakuzhy Bandra, March 22, 2024: The Daughters of St Paul on March 22 concluded their 36-day program of spreading the message of Lent through Mother Mary’s perspective. “During lent we wanted to communicate the love of Jesus. Nothing else can demonstrate God’s love more powerfully than the crossContinue Reading
By Stan Alla New Delhi, March 23, 2024: The Lithuanian Embassy in New Delhi on March 22 organized a function to recall the services of a Jesuit priest who worked more than six decades among the poor in the western Indian state of Maharashtra. Jesuit Father Donatas Slapsys, born inContinue Reading
By chhotebhai Kanpur, March 20, 2024: This is an alarmist headline. It is meant to be. It is inspired in part by the novel “Dogs of War” written 70 years ago by Fredrick Forsythe. But this article is not fiction, for truth is stranger than fiction. Polytheist religions have GodsContinue Reading
By Francis Sunil Rosario Ranchi, March 20, 2024: More than 10,000 people turned up for the installation of the seventh archbishop of Ranchi, the mother diocese of India’s tribal Church. Jesuit Archbishop Felix Toppo, who retired as the Ranchi archbishop, on March 19 installed Archbishop Vincent Aind in the presenceContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Bengaluru, March 20, 2024: The Conference of Religious Women, India (CRWI), has released its strategic plan for 2024-2029 with a stress on networking and partnerships. Sister Jane Wakahiu, head of Catholic Sisters Initiative under Hilton Foundation, released the document at Bengaluru on March 19 in the presenceContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Mangaluru, March 19, 2024: Jesuit Father Praveen Martis has been appointed the first vice chancellor of the newly created St. Aloysius Deemed to University in Mangaluru. This was announced March 19 by Jesuit Karnataka provincial Father Dionysius Vaz, the university chancellor, in the southwestern India city. FatherContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, March 18, 2024: Father Paul Thelakat on March 15 stepped down as the editor of the Sathyadeepam, the largest circulated Catholic weekly in Malayalam language. The 75-year-old priest of the Ernakulam-Angamaly archdiocese edited the weekly for a record 37 years. So, on March 13, theContinue Reading
By Cedric Prakash Our world today (particularly, India) is broken and fragmented; divisiveness, hate and violence hold way! The people cry out for exemplars: women and men who can transcend exclusiveness, pettiness and jingoism! Those who have the prophetic courage to be visible and vocal and who make efforts toContinue Reading
By John Singarayar Mumbai, March 17, 2024: In a unified effort to uplift spirits and invoke divine guidance, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) has declared March 22, 2024, as a “National Day of Fasting and Prayer” across all dioceses in India. The decision was reached during CBCI’s 36thContinue Reading
By Astrid Lobo Gajiwala Mumbai, March 17, 2024: Last year, as part of a grassroots consultation for the Synod on Synodality. I was invited to an international conference organized by Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram (Pontifical Athenaeum) Bengaluru, and asked to speak on: “What can I do to make the Indian ChurchContinue Reading