By Lissy Maruthanakuzhy Panaji, Oct 13, 2021: When September came this year, it brought joyful memories of my school life and of my teachers, beginning with nursery school. I remember with love my teachers who stood by me in my moments of doubt and pain, and rejoiced at even myContinue Reading
By Fr F. M. Britto Raipur, Oct 11, 2021: Just two years after my priestly ordination, having served as an assistant in rural Pithora parish, our then Raipur Diocesan Administrator Monsignor Francis Werner Hunold appointed me as the first priest in charge of a new town parish Kawardha in aContinue Reading
BY Shalini Mulackal New Delhi, Oct 11, 2021: The first phase of the 16th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops will take place from October 17 to April 2022. Preparations are already underway towards this. The Preparatory Document (PD) and the handbook (Vademecum) that accompanies it for conductingContinue Reading
By Jaswant Kaur New Delhi, Oct. 10, 2021: Asha (name changed) stays with her extended family in the slums of Noida, a planned city in India’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh. Ever since she was born, she had been facing constant abuse. For a family of 12, where seven areContinue Reading
By Don Aguiar Mumbai, Oct. 9, 2021: Well, that’s exactly what we are doing with how we run planet Earth. Did you see the recent photo of the G20 leaders? There were 36 men and 3 women lined up. A few murderers, maybe a genocide or two under their belts…andContinue Reading
By F. M. Britto Raipur, Oct. 8, 2021: October 16 is the feast of Blessed Kunjachan, who had made himself a fool for the outcastes. He had spent most of his life as an assistant pastor in his home parish Ramapuram in Kerala’s Palai diocese. Today pilgrims from far andContinue Reading
By Ittoop Panikulam Mumbai, Oct. 7, 2021: I do not know if any person, other than Divine Word Father Joe Francis who has perfectly answered the World Smile Day Call on October 1. One sure ray of goodness Joe daily spreads is his unique smile. At 70, Joe, as heContinue Reading
By Nisha Jose Kottayam, Oct. 5, 2021: I am the founder director of Vathil (door) Foundation that promotes mental health and wellness. Our activities include counselling, training and workshops for people from different walks of life. We also offer a diploma program in counselling and psychotherapy in association with SchoolContinue Reading
To The Ecclesiastical Heads of the Catholic Church in India 1st October 2021 AN OPEN LETTER ON SYNODALITY Respected Cardinals, Archbishops, Bishops, Apostolic and Diocesan Administrators, Peace of Christ! A week from now our dearly beloved Pope Francis will solemnly open the proceedings for the 16 th Ordinary General AssemblyContinue Reading
By George Plathottam Manila, Sept 28, 2021: People who wanted to go after the blood of Bishop Joseph Kallarangatt of Palai have made a heady cocktail of issues such as fanning communal disharmony, pandering to rightwing politics of the BJP and Sangh Parivar, interreligious marriages, conversions, peaceful co-existence of peopleContinue Reading
