By Dr George Jacob Kochi, Nov 22, 2021: The southern state of Kerala is supposedly the healthiest among the Indian states. This reputation comprises one of the reasons why Kerala is monikered “God’s own country.” This is based on certain health indices which places Kerala on par with Scandinavian nations.Continue Reading
By Don Aguiar Mumbai, Nov 19, 2021: From the genius of discovering how to use fire to cook food we have ended up cooking the planet. From the wizardry of creating spears to help us survive we now threaten ourselves with nuclear-tipped hypersonic missiles. It turns out that each ofContinue Reading
By Ladislaus Louis D’Souza Mumbai, Nov 18, 2021: One of the most solemn feasts in the liturgical calendar of the Catholic Church is the Solemnity of Christ, The King! The uniqueness of this feast lies in the fact that it belongs to the class of “idea-feasts.” It celebrates no specificContinue Reading
By chhotebhai Kanpur, Nov 3, 2021: Has Pope Francis sold his soul to the devil? Oops sorry, I meant Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Christians in India awoke on October) 31 morning to see screaming headlines accompanied by a large photograph of Pope Francis and Narendra Modi hugging each other. ItContinue Reading
By Ladislaus Louis D’Souza Mumbai, Nov 1, 2021: Sacred Scripture says, “It is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from sins” (2 Mac 12:46). It is therefore fitting that the Church draws our attention to the value intrinsic in recalling ourContinue Reading
By Ladislaus Louis D’Souza Mumbai, Oct. 31, 2021: “O pleasant happiness to see the saints, to be with the saints, to be a saint!” exults Saint Augustine of Hippo. Each age has produced its crop of holy men and women who go to make the amazing galaxy of saints inContinue Reading
By Christopher Khoo Singapore, Oct 28, 2021: When will all this end? I remember asking myself this several times last year as the Covid-19 pandemic dragged on week after week, month after month. And then, when it looked as if the clouds were lifting and infection rates dropping, another surgeContinue Reading
By Lavina D’Souza Ministry Mumbai, Oct 25, 2021: Crossing a river or stream to reach certain villages used to be part of my local travels when I served in a village in the interior of India a few years ago. And many times when I reached midway in the stream,Continue Reading
By Jan Tellis Guwahati, Oct 17, 2021: Let me start with the words of Roderick Davis, the actor: “Love is the root of missions; sacrifice is the fruit of missions.” That sums up my four years of stay in faraway Paraguay, in South America. Life in the missions helps meContinue Reading
By Irudhaya Jothi Kailashahar, Tripura, Oct. 16, 2021: In the 2021 Global Hunger Index, India ranks 101 out of the116 countries with sufficient data to calculate 2021 scores. With a score of 27.5, India has a level of hunger that isserious. India was ranked 94 in the previous year, nowContinue Reading
