Details of that meeting with Mother Teresa more in Delhi than two decades ago are sketchy. But the particular moment is very clear. It must have been late October; winter was making a guest appearance in a city bathed in dust and just out of months of torturous summer sun.Continue Reading

It was April 1975. The diminutive figure in the white and blue sari was bent and fragile, yet the hand extended was firm and warm. The private meeting on the upper floors of the Philadelphia archdiocese will be forever etched in my memory. Mother Teresa, the beloved Catholic nun fromContinue Reading

Euphoric expressions of our love and admiration for Mother Teresa began several months before her canonization was announced by the Vatican on March 15 this year. People across the world also stormed heavens for her ‘speedy’ Canonization. The Social Media, Church personnel, educational institutions, Hospitals, Charity organizations have been busyContinue Reading

Last Thursday marked a momentous and joyful day in Church history as the Vatican announced that His Holiness Pope Francis had formally established a new Eparchy (Diocese) for the Syro-Malabar Catholic faithful in Great Britain and named its first Eparch (Bishop) as Monsignor Joseph Srampickal currently working in Rome. AnContinue Reading