Teresa’s canonization: Why must India pay for ministers holiday?
2016-09-02
I hope each of those flying to the Vatican this weekend, will choose not to have Indian citizens pay for it.
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Of victims and victimhood
2016-08-31
The killers of a lovable priest in France will find amazing kindred spirits in India.Continue Reading
30 minutes with Mother Teresa changed me
2016-08-28
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
Mother Teresa; She lived like an Eagle
2016-08-26
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
Lone convert from Bhutan became priest thanks to Mother Teresa
2016-08-25
Jesuit provincial of Darjeeling recalls his chance meeting with Mother TeresaContinue Reading
New Syro-Malabar eparchy of Great Britain
2016-08-20
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
Helping AIDS patients under Teresa inspiration
2016-08-02
One of the first things Mother Teresa ever told me was, “Tony, if you’ll just listen, you’ll find that there is something beautiful about each of these men.” And, before long, I could see it. I loved them all. And I lost them all. But through the years I learntContinue Reading
Indian layman’s open letter to Pope Francis
2016-07-31
This appeal has been sent to Pope Francis through the Papal Nuncio in IndiaContinue Reading
Mother Teresa: A hero for our time
2016-07-26
I wish everybody could be at the Vatican on Sept. 4 for the remarkable occasion of Mother Teresa’s Sainthood. There they would meet some of the most caring people from across the world. I am fortunate to have met many of them. I first talked to Mother Teresa herself atContinue Reading
When little nun in sari asked for my help
2016-07-22
Hallelujah! It’s been announced. The Vatican will declare Mother Teresa a saint, after all. Pope Francis will canonize her on September 4. She will be known as St. Teresa of Calcutta. The modern world’s most ardent apostle of compassion for the disadvantaged in our society. Hundreds of priests, missionaries andContinue Reading