By Matters India Reporter Panaji, August 8, 2023: The Catholic Church in Goa has distanced itself from a layman’s call to fellow Goans to unite or be doomed. The call appeared in an article published in the August 1-15 edition of the “Renewal,” the bimonthly pastoral bulletin of the ArchdioceseContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, August 7, 2023: The return of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi to the Indian Parliament 135 days after his disqualification has reassured people’s faith in the Indian judiciary, say some Christian intellectuals. Gandhi, who represented Kerala’s Wayanad constituency in the Lok Sabha, was reinstated August 7Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New York, August 7, 2023: The Indian Christian community in the Tri-state area organized a vigil in front of the United Nations to pray for peace and justice in Manipur where ethnic clashes have raged since May 3. The participants of the August 5 program prayedContinue Reading
By Manju Devarapalli Hyderabad, August 7, 2023: The Telugu speaking Church in India has mourned the death of a renowned folk singer and poet, who was a major proponent of Telangana state in eastern India. Gummadi Vittal Rao, popularly known as Gaddar, died at 3 pm on July 6 atContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, August 6, 2023: The protracted liturgical controversy in the archdiocese of Ernakulam seems to get murkier as its faithful on August 6 rejected a circular on the uniform mode of celebrating Mass from the newly appointed delegate of Pope Francis. Jesuit Archbishop Cyril Vasil, whoContinue Reading
By C M Paul New Education Policy 2020 speaks of the importance of community interventions by students and faculty members while pursuing higher education. Being a new concept, implementing Service Learning as a Pedagogy for 21st Century Skills becomes a challenge. It is precisely for this reason, the new bookContinue Reading
By M L Satyan Bengaluru, August 3, 2023: In the YouTube I watched Karan Thapar’s recent interview with the Archbishop of Imphal. One pre-dominant and critical question was “Is there any hint on religious intolerance?” The archbishop gave an elaborate response, “249 Meitei Christian churches in Imphal and Imphal valleyContinue Reading
By John Dayal New Delhi, August 3, 2021: Cardinal Oswald Gracias is a respected leader of the Catholic Church, who since his inclusion in the 8-member group the Holy Father created to advise him on global affairs, is well known across national boundaries and continents. In many ways, he is,Continue Reading
By Sunny Jacob Dublin, August 2, 2023: Historically, the words religious and spiritual have been used synonymously to describe all the various aspects of the concept of religion, but in contemporary usage spirituality has often become associated with the interior life of the individual, placing an emphasis upon the well-beingContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, August 2, 2023: Catholics across India have reacted with dismay to a message on Manipur from Cardinal Oswald Gracias, a top Church leader in the country and one of the eight advisors of Pope Francis. The cardinal’s comments “were shocking, uncalled for and totally unjustified,Continue Reading
