By P. A. Chacko Sahibganj: As the palm-fringed ‘God’s own Country,’ Kerala, is swaying with high speed winds unleashed by the electoral tsunami, beggars and crawlers are making a beeline in dramatic fashion. The hopeful, near hopefuls and the desperados are begging kingmaker voters for a pittance of their votes.Continue Reading
By chhotebhai Kanpur: Readers would want to pack me off to the loony bin. Here we are in the middle of Holy Week and I am dreaming of Christmas! Am I nuts? There is a famous book, “Nine days to Christmas” by Aurora Labastida and Marie Hall Ets, published inContinue Reading
By Varghese Alengaden Indore: Attacks on church institutions and harassment of Christian priests and nuns have become a routine affair now. The latest incident was on March 17 against two nuns travelling with young postulants in a train from New Delhi to Odisha. The nuns were in their traditional religiousContinue Reading
By chhotebhai Kanpur: This is being written on the first anniversary of another of those dramatic announcements by the pseudo sage on the stage. It was on this day last year that he did another “surgical strike” on the public, on the lines of notebandi and GST. All for dramaticContinue Reading
By Varghese Alengaden Indore: Celebrations of birthdays of persons, foundation days of institutions and jubilees of different types have become common in our society. Much money, time and energy are wasted for exhibiting pomp and show by persons and institutions. Often people count the years of mere existence instead ofContinue Reading
By Lissy Maruthanakuzhy Panaji: Quick decision, desire to help another, ready to dare, selflessness are some of the thoughts that run across my mind when I read the story of the little Hebrew girl and Naaman, the official (2 Kings 5:1-19) She was brought as a slave in the houseContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi: A Jesuit priest says the way Muslims celebrate the month of Ramzan helps him grow in God-consciousness as a Christian. The month of Ramzan falls in April this year “I consciously use the word ‘celebrate’ because I have personally experienced and seen Muslim friends—sistersContinue Reading
By Fr. Cedric Prakash SJ Ahmedabad: Let us Celebrate St. Joseph! On his Feast Day (March 19) and on every single day of this year dedicated to him. In his Apostolic Letter ‘Patris Corde’ (With a Father’s Heart), Pope Francis recalls the 150th anniversary of the declaration of Saint JosephContinue Reading
By Varghese Alengaden Indore: Sister Loretta Pinto, who worked in Catholic Relief Services after becoming the first nun in India to pass MSW, passed on March 14 at Villa St. Joseph, Mysore, after prolonged age-related illness. The member of the Carmelite Sisters of St Teresa was 90. The Hindi saying,Continue Reading
By Cedric Prakash SJ Ahmedabad: Today, March 12, has two significant anniversaries. Ninety-one years ago, in 1930, Mahatma Gandhi began his famous protest, the Dandi March, not far from the Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad to protest the tax salt imposed by the British. It was a Civil Disobedience movement –Continue Reading
