Washington, March 21, 2020: Earlier on March 19, I announced that I will not be running for re-election as Washington State’s lieutenant governor and have decided to enter the Society of Jesus. This decision follows two years of careful and prayerful discernment. But because that process has been almost entirelyContinue Reading
By James Kottoor Marshall McLuhan, a Canadian thinker, coined the term “Global Village” in the 1960s. He was highlighting the results of the coming of internet, which wiped out totally and instantly the distances of space and time – space to the shouting distance of a ‘village’ and time toContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, March 20, 2020: Cardinal Oswald Gracias, head of the Catholic Church in India, on March 20 urged his people to cooperate wholeheartedly with the people’s curfew called by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to contain coronavirus epidemic. Cardinal Gracias lauded the prime minister’s public appealContinue Reading
By Jenny Snarski Father Shaji Pazhukkathara was born in the northern part of the Indian state of Kerala, on the southwest tip of the peninsula. “Kerala” means “land of coconut” – significant, as the state, with its 600 kilometers of Arabian Sea shoreline, is well known for beaches lined withContinue Reading
By Shaili Chopra Motherhood in Coronavirus times has been tough. We are rediscovering our lives, our environment and a part of our selves. Thanks to coronavirus, I am a new self. And I am quite scared of confronting this person in the mirror. Because she is this maniacal woman whoContinue Reading
New Delhi, March 20, 2020: Four convicts in the Nirbhaya murder case were hanged to death on March 20, more than seven years after the gangrape and tortured of a young medical student on a moving bus in Delhi. Sandeep Goel, Director-General of Delhi’s Tihar jail, confirmed to reporters outsideContinue Reading
By C V Joseph Bengaluru, March 20, 2020: Archbishop Peter Machado of Bangalore has urged people to follow Blessed Chiara Lubich, founder of the Focolare Movement that strives to foster unity and universal fraternity. The archbishop said this during a Mass on March 14 to mark the birth centenary ofContinue Reading
By Victor Edwin Hyderabad, March 19, 2020: The Henry Martyn Institute in Hyderabad, a pioneering specialized institute of Islamic studies, has honored a Jesuit educationalist and a Muslim scholar for their contribution to Muslim-Christian relations. Church of South India Bishop Pushpa Lolita, vice-chairperson of Henry Martyn Institute, on March 18Continue Reading
New Delhi, March19, 2020: Petitions by all three convicts in the Nirbhaya case — who made a last-minute appeal for a freeze on tomorrow’s execution — have been dismissed by the Supreme Court. The judges turned down their lawyers’ plea to “send them to Indo-Pak border or Doklam” and notContinue Reading
By Don Aguiar Mumbai, March 19, 2020: A question for the doctors here. Isn’t the incidence of flu as prevalent in India (a relatively warm country) as in colder countries and since coronavirus is a new strain in that family of viruses, why would Indians end up ultimately experiencing aContinue Reading
