Rome: Five members of the Missionaries of Charity and 14 disabled children from an orphanage in Afghanistan arrived August 25 at Rome’s international airport. A Catholic priest and the sisters arrived on one of two evacuation flights from Kabul that landed in Rome carrying a total of 277 people. FatherContinue Reading
North Carolina: The outdoor Mass at Green Hope High School is informal. People dressed casually in shorts and sandals stand or sit in folding camp chairs. At 8:30 a.m., it’s already hot outside. But this hardy group of Catholics is not a second-wave COVID-19 workaround. Mother Teresa Catholic Church, technicallyContinue Reading
Kochi: Priests, who lead the Mass, will face the congregation for the introductory session and delivering the sermon, but for the rest the of worship, will face the tabernacle, beginning November 28, it was decided at the 29th Synod of the Syro-Malabar Church that was held online and concluded onContinue Reading
By A P Shah Thank you to Ram Puniyani and his colleagues at the National Solidarity Forum for organising Kandhamal Day this year. This is an important event to mark one of the most horrific incidents of communal violence that has taken place in India in the recent past. TheyContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Bhubaneswar: The anti-Christian violence in Kandhamal of 2008 is “still fresh in people’s memory,” Justice A P Shah, former chief justice of Delhi High Court and a former chairman of the Law Commission of India, told a webinar on August 25. Justice Shah was delivering theContinue Reading
Vatican City: Pope Francis has appointed a Salesian nun as interim secretary of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, the Vatican announced. Sister Alessandra Smerilli replaces Monsignor Bruno Marie Duffé and Father Augusto Zampini, respectively secretary and assistant secretary of the Dicastery, both of whom have returned to theirContinue Reading
By Philip Mathew Ambalavayal: Sister Rini Rose was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis when she was 26. As a result, she has become physically weak, which limits and slows down her movements. Rose made her first profession at the age of 20 as a member of the Sisters of the AdorationContinue Reading
By AXJ Bosco Dalit Christians love Jesus and the liberative message of the Gospel that God, our Father and Mother loves everyone; he shines the sun on the good and the bad and showers his rain on the just and the unjust (Mt 5:45); in his kingdom the first willContinue Reading
By: Shane Joseph Alliew Running at 112 minutes, Michael Chaves directed The Devil Made Me Do It (also known as Conjuring 3), is based on a story by Johnson-McGoldrick and James Wan. It is the eighth installment in the Conjuring Universe. The film was released by Warner Bros. Pictures andContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi: The Indian Catholic Press Association (ICPA) on August 26 mourned the death of its last survivor founder earlier in the day. Monsignor Benedict Aguiar had led the organisation as its president from 1969 to 1978. “In his death the ICPA has lost a father-figure.Continue Reading
