By George Karuvelil Patna, Jan 22, 2022: 72 years ago we declared ourselves a secular republic. And our secularism is in serious trouble today. Some gloat over it; others bemoan it. But what brought it to its deathbed? No, the ills of Indian secularism did not begin with Narendra ModiContinue Reading
By Don Aguiar Mumbai, Jan 21, 2022: When a society denies human rights to some of its people it introduces a corruption that will rot its way through other people and institutions. Equally where corruption of any kind spreads it will soon eat away at human rights. Human rights areContinue Reading
By Ram Puniyani Mumbai, Dec 19, 2021: In December, town planning committee of Ahmadabad Municipal Corporation specifically mentioned that stalls selling non-vegetarian items will not be allowed along public roads and in the 100-meter radius of schools, colleges and religious places. On these lines decisions were also taken by Vadodara,Continue Reading
By Don Aguiar. Mumbai, Nov 15, 2021: We as a Church – worldwide – are preparing for a “synod on synodality” in 2023. Pope Francis is asking us to become “a synodal Church.” And in various places Catholics are preparing for ‘synods’ of various kinds. But if everyone in theContinue Reading
By Manoj Varghese New Delhi, Nov 13, 2-21: A team of National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) November 8 raided a girls’ hostel run by Catholic nuns in the Sagar diocese in Madhya Pradesh accusing them of ‘conversion.’ The same institution a year ago had received appreciation forContinue Reading
By M L Satyan Bengaluru, Oct 6, 2021: An 8-year-old orphan boy living on a footpath in an Indian town stole a biscuit packet from a small shop. The shopkeeper and the onlookers beat up the boy mercilessly. Later he was sent to a juvenile home where he spent oneContinue Reading
By Pascoal Carvalho Mumbai, Sept. 28, 2021: Excerpt of the presentation by Mumbai-based Doctor Pascoal Carvalho at the general assembly of the Pontifical Academy for Life in Rome on September 27 on “Public Health in Global Perspective – Pandemic, Bioethics, Future.” The Covid-19 Pandemic has been the greatest leveler inContinue Reading
By M L Satyan Bengaluru: One of the seven crimes about which Mahatma Gandhiji mentioned was Education without character. During the past one year we have been witnessing increasing cases of crimes committed by school and college students. Such crimes have been highlighted by various English and Vernacular newspapers. SomeContinue Reading
By John Dayal New Delhi: No boat on a choppy Sea of Galilee would have been tossed as violently as the Church in India finds itself shaken today, trying to negotiate its way between competitive political space with Muslims and Hindus in distant Kerala, rampant persecution by non-state actors inContinue Reading
By Joel Urumpil Chaibasa: I want to speak about the Stan I knew for over 40 years and more — a very vibrant man totally committed to the liberation of human society. Stan had two aspects: the intellectual and the grassroots activist. I first met Stan in the mid-1970s whenContinue Reading
