By Matters India Reporter Kochi, Jun 14, 2022: An organization formed to support Catholic nuns in distress, on June 14 petitioned Pope Francis against the alleged move to “reinstate” Bishop Franco Mulakkal as head of the diocese of Jalandhar. The appeal from Save Our Sisters (SOS) claims that a trialContinue Reading
Limburg, June 14, 2022: The rector of a German Catholic seminary was found dead in an apparent suicide case. Father Christof May had been removed the day before from all his offices by Bishop Georg Bätzing of Limburg. Bätzing, the current chairman of the German bishops’ conference, reportedly took theContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, June 14, 2022: A Catholic nun working in the diocese of Rajkot in Gujarat state died in a road accident three days ago. Sister Grace Jose, a member of the Franciscan Clarist Congregation, was going for evening Mass on a scooter on June 11Continue Reading
By Francis Fernandes Mumbai, June 14, 2022: The Labour Commission of the archdiocese of Bombay has felicitated Christine Nathan, the newly elected president of Council of the International Catholic Migration Commission (ICMC). Nathan, a member of Bombay archdiocesan labor commission, is the first Asian and second woman to head theContinue Reading
By Sujata Jena Bhubaneswar, June 13, 2022: Manoranjan Nayak, an officer of the Odisha Administration, thanks a Catholic priest for helping him reach where he is now. “I went through a critical financial constraint in 2002 when I started preparing for civil services. Father Abraham [Karukaparambil] came to my rescueContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, June 13, 2022: The United Christian Forum (UCF), an ecumenical group, has demanded urgent judicial and government intervention to check what it says is the rapid rise in incidents of violence, coercion and false arrests that traumatize the community. The persecution is most acuteContinue Reading
By Vincent Perappaden Thiruvananthapuram, June 12, 2022: It was named as a conclave. The attendees were about 150 priests, religious sisters, and lay leaders who run schools and colleges in Kerala. It looked like a meeting of the Catholic educational leaders convened by the Kerala Catholic Bishops’ Conference (KCBC) atContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, June 11, 2022: Archbishop Leopoldo Girelli, apostolic nuncio to India and Nepal, on June 11 said the Vatican has accepted the Indian court decision about Bishop Franco Mulakkal of Jalandhar. The nuncio, who was on a two-day pastoral visit to Jalandhar, said this June 11Continue Reading
By Sujata Jena Bhubaneswar, June 11, 2022: Lalita Beero, an unlettered and homebound homemaker from Mohana, a rural village of the Gajapati district of the eastern Indian state of Odisha, is a member of the diocesan synodal team of the Diocese of Berhampur. “I used to be very fearful,” sheContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Agartala, June 11, 2022: Nine months of the intense synodal meetings at different levels ended June 11 with the diocesan pre-Synodal meeting in Agartala, capital of the northeastern Indian state. As many as 92 representatives of laity, catechists, women’s groups, youth religious and priests attended theContinue Reading
