Vatican City: A laicized priest who had been the spiritual director to six people who said they experienced visions of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Bosnian town of Medjugorje has been excommunicated. Tomislav Vlasic, who had been a Franciscan priest until he was laicized in 2009, was excommunicated JulyContinue Reading
Dorothy Fernandes Mumbai: A training programme on the role of educational technology in supporting blended learning in the virtual environment for educators and learners was held last week. Some 90 staff members of Don Bosco High School and Junior College in Naigaon (East) participated in the on-line program. The resourceContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporters Mumbai: Pope Francis has appointed Divine Word Father Sebastian Maria Michael, a noted sociologist and writer, as a consulter of the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Inter-Religious Dialogue. Father Michael is the director of the Commission for Interreligious Dialogue of the Archdiocese of Bombay. He is aContinue Reading
By Matters India Manila: The Miss Universe Philippines 2020 is the daughter of an Indian man. The newly-crowned beauty queen, 23-year old Rabiya Occeña Mateo, hails from Iloilo City, about 655 km south of Manila. She will represent the country at the international Miss Universe 2020, which may take placeContinue Reading
By Abhish K Bose Kottayam: The Jesuit congregation is hopeful that the case against 83-year-old Father Stan Swamy will be shattered in the court, as there is no evidence to establish that he was in some way connected with the violence against Dalits at Bhima Koregaon. The imprisoned priest’s closeContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Patna: As the Covid-19 pandemic creates a ‘new normal,’ the emerging ‘new age’ professional world would require a new skill set, says an expert in leadership development. “In the new normal world, digitization is taking place at a very fast pace. As an individual one mustContinue Reading
By Don Aguiar Mumbai: Questions swirled October 22 about the origins of Pope Francis’ comments endorsing same-sex civil unions, with all evidence suggesting he made them in a 2019 interview that was never broadcast in its entirety. The Vatican refused to comment on whether it cut the remarks from itsContinue Reading
By Deborah Thambi Kochi: Koonammavu a tiny village, located 27 km north of Kochi, Kerala’s commercial hub, has produced and exported an item considered integral to the Catholic faith across the world: rosaries. For nearly 150 years, Koonammavu residents, mostly women, have been engaged in the business of stringing prayerContinue Reading
By Lissy Maruthanakuzhy Old Goa: Sister Meena Dias, a member of the Sisters of Holy Family of Nazareth, is adept in training differently abled children. In 1991, she started serving St. Xavier’s Academy in Old Goa, an institution under the Archdiocese of Goa and Daman. Sister Dias was the firstContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Trichy: Ten diocesan priests from Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry have released a book on the Church financial administrative culture. “It was a soul searching process while we prepared the book Akkarai (concern) 2020,” Father Devasagayaraj M Zackarias, one of the authors and a former national secretaryContinue Reading
