By Miki Perkins Melbourne: Anjali Sharma first felt a sick sense of climate-related dread in the pit of her stomach when she was a primary school student. Keen to find out more about climate change, the 16-year-old watched an online video that warned Earth only had eight years before itContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Ajmer: A Catholic priest, who recently assaulted his bishop, has been suspended, according to a letter from the victim prelate. In a letter to Father Varghese Palappallil, Bishop Pius Thomas D’Souza of Ajmer cited the second section of Canon law 1370 to inform his priest assaulterContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Ajmer: A Catholic priest of Ajmer diocese, currently facing sexual abuse allegation, has physically attacked his bishop, says a message from the vicar general. The March 9 message from Father Cosmos Shekhawat terms as “very unfortunate” the attack that took place in the Bishop’s House twoContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Mumbai: A special court in Mumbai March 11 deferred its order on the bail plea of tribal rights activist Jesuit Father Stan Swamy, plunging his confreres and supporters into gloom. “Yes sad, and bad indeed,” the Jesuit Conference of South Asia reacted to the news. “TheContinue Reading
Madrid: A 10-year-old girl in Spain fulfilled her childhood dream of becoming a Catholic missionary from her hospital bed shortly before dying from a brain tumor this week. Teresita Castillo de Diego died March 7 in Madrid after three years of fighting a brain tumor. Fr. Ángel Camino Lamela, anContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi: Dalit groups such as the National Council of Dalit Christians have been demanding human dignity and equality within the Church. On March 10, the council urged Pope Francis to create a separate ritual Church for Dalit Catholics to end their centuries-old discrimination. Council coordinatorContinue Reading
World peace depends much on the promotion of equal respect and advancement of men and women in and by media. That was the view expressed by Mgr Janusz Urbanczyk, Permanent Representative of the Holy See to the United Nations during a meeting of the Organization for Security and Co-operation inContinue Reading
Twitter has deactivated an account bearing the name of Cardinal Charles Maung Bo, Archbishop of Yangon, Myanmar. But it was Cardinal Bo himself who asked the social network to delete the account, as it was wrongly attributed to the archbishop. Cardinal Bo’s secretary confirmed to Fides, the information service ofContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi: The demand for a separate Rite for Dalit Catholics is gaining momentum with many supporting it as a solution to caste-based discrimination in the Indian Church. “If this can bring about much needed respect for the Dalit Catholics and wipe out that invisible line ofContinue Reading
Editorial in ncronline.org Washington: A press release from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops rarely makes national news, but in the past two months our church leaders have managed to garner headlines not once, but twice. Unfortunately, in both instances, the notoriety came because the bishops’ comments were tone deafContinue Reading
