Remembering Camille Bulcke
2016-09-19
Jesuit who submitted first Hindi research project to Indian universityContinue Reading
Reflections on the harsh criticism of Mother Teresa
2016-09-15
There was certainly reason to be critical but what difference has it made? Mari Marcel Thekaekara asks. Just before Mother Teresa’s canonisation earlier this month, I wrote in the Guardian about how I grew up in a Kolkata flat, a three minute walk from Mother Teresa’s convent, locally referred toContinue Reading
No longer naked, but liberated
2016-09-12
The man was brilliant, converting adversity into an opportunityContinue Reading
I evolved with Mother’s sainthood: Alphons Kannanthanam
2016-09-05
It was as if Mother Teresa’s soul had seeped into each and every one of the millions who had gathered at St. Peter’s Square. For a few unbelievable hours, it was as if the world had evolved, had become one, had magically transcended the lethal squabbles that have come toContinue Reading
A teenager’s meeting with Mother Teresa
2016-09-04
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
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