By M L Satyan Bengaluru, Aug 2, 2022: Dinakaran, a Tamil daily, carried a half-page article on July 28 that gives surprising information on how today’s youth do not march towards liquor shops, instead go to medical shops and buy cough syrup, surgical spirit, sleeping pills and other medicines meantContinue Reading
By Molly Fernandes Old Goa, Aug 1, 2022: Cardinal-elect Filipe Neri Ferrao, Archbishop of Goa and Daman, has urged Jesuits and their collaborators to listen, discern and respond to God’s call and become true followers of Christ. The cardinal-elect was speaking during a solemn Mass July 31 at Bom JesuContinue Reading
By David Paulen Canterbury, Aug 1, 2022: Episcopal and Anglican bishops and their spouses filled Canterbury Cathedral on July 31 for the opening Sunday Eucharist of the Lambeth Conference. The service spanned several hours and was marked by prayer and pageantry in a worship space with more than 1,400 yearsContinue Reading
By George Plathottam Manila, Aug 1, 2022: Ordinarily when we think of communication, we think of oral, written or digital communication. But we use many other methods like body language to communicate with others. We use gestures, eye contacts, smiles, handshake, signs and symbols in our everyday communication with oneContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Mangaluru, Aug 1, 2022: The Catholic churches in Mangaluru have organized special prayers for communal harmony as sectarian tension prevails in the southern Indian coastal city. Two Muslim and one Hindu youth were killed in separate incidents of targeted violence by extremist groups from both the communitiesContinue Reading
By Shane Alliew Kolkata, July 31, 2022: What is it with the three-letter word – sex of course (in case you are wondering) and why is it that when it comes to the pleasures of the act, there are eyebrows raised and several dramatic taboos involved, are conveniently brushed underContinue Reading
By Jacob Marangattu Bhopal, July 30, 2022: In the encyclical, Ad Petri Cathedram of 1959, Pope John XXIII said, “But the common saying, expressed in various ways and attributed to various authors, must be recalled with approval: in essentials, unity; in doubtful matters, liberty; in all things, charity” (n. 72,Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kochi, July 30, 2022: Pope Francis on July 30 appointed Archbishop Andrews Thazhath of Trichur, a world renowned expert in the Oriental Code of Canon Law, as the apostolic administrator of Ernakulam-Angamaly archdiocese. The Syro-Malabar archdiocese was lying vacant since July 26 when its metropolitan vicarContinue Reading
Quebec City, July 29, 2022: Participants at Pope Francis’s Mass in Canada on July 28 unfurled a banner asking him to formally rescind edicts from the 15th century in which the papacy justified taking indigenous land. The large banner protesting the doctrine of discovery was unfurled near the front rowContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Bengaluru, July 29, 2022: The Conference of Catholic Bishops of India (CCBI), the national association of the Latin rite bishops, has felicitated the country’s new cardinals. Cardinal Oswald Gracias, president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India and a member of the Pope’s advisory group, honoredContinue Reading
