Rome: While pandemic restrictions will prevent Catholics in the Philippines from traveling to the 52nd International Eucharistic Congress in Budapest next month, the country’s bishops have organized their own online celebration of the Eucharist. The Philippines bishops had intended to send a delegation of 500 Catholics to the September 5-12Continue Reading
By Don Aguiar Mumbai: Is this change becoming reality, as India celebrated 75 years of Independence this August 15? It is time to evaluate the progress of the Constitutional promises of a dignified life to the common man. The right to a dignified life without discrimination against any individual orContinue Reading
By Franklin Caesar Thomas New Delhi: I have read in Matters India an article written by A. Pushparajan on August 5 under the headline, “Caste discrimination in Indian Church: Should Pope intervene?” This article is trying to explain some points raised by Pushparajan. According to the Vatican website (Week ofContinue Reading
By Lavina D’Souza Mumbai: Rabindranath Tagore once remarked, “I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can’t make it through one door, I’ll go through another door — or I’ll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.” This optimism is whatContinue Reading
New Delhi: A 33-year-old woman in the national capital paid with her life, just because her four-year-old son urinated in front of her neighbor’s house in north-east Delhi’s Aman Vihar. The four-year-old boy’s mother, Savitri Rana, was slashed several times with a razor by a minor who lives in herContinue Reading
By Arun Ferreira Mumbai: Although we received news by late evening on October 8, 2020, of Father Stan Swamy’s arrest, we were quite shocked to see him the next morning in the adjourning barrack conversing with inmates in his impeccable Hindi. I was at that time lodged in a cellContinue Reading
By P T Mathew New Delhi: The crisis of credibility is a wake-up call for the Church in India, and the best way to regain is to follow Jesus, who “lived what he taught and what he taught, he lived,” say Catholic theologians in the country. The eroding credibility theContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi: National Solidarity Forum (NSF), comprising more than 70 human rights organization, has set up two awards to honor victims and survivors of the 2008 mass violence in Odisha state’s Kandhamal district. The forum plans to hold a virtual national webinar on August 25 toContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kochi: All the 456 priests of the Archdiocese of Ernakulam-Angamaly have written to Pope Francis saying they want to continue to offer Mass facing people, a practice that the Syro-Malabar eparchy has followed for the past 50 years. The memorandum was sent to the prefect ofContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kochi: The Kerala High Court on August 12 said that Cardinal George Alencherry must face trial in the land deal case. The court upheld the verdict of a district sessions court that on August 24, 2019, asked the cardinal and two others to stand trial inContinue Reading
