By Dorothy Fernandes Patna, Feb 17, 2023: India has changed a great deal over the past few months. When the reins of governance moved to the Bharatiya Janata Party, or BJP, people welcomed the change, but gradually the party’s hidden agenda is becoming evident. The hidden agenda seems to beContinue Reading
Dr. George Jacob Kochi, Feb 17, 2023: On a Monday morning, I began my work as a doctor in the Surgical ICU of a corporate hospital in Kochi in the southern Indian state of Kerala on a sullen note. A patient who had been operated for advanced rectal cancer passedContinue Reading
By chhotebhai Kanpur, Feb 4, 2023: Synod, what’s that? Are we suffering from collective amnesia? The next round, the Continental one, is slated for February 24-27. For Asia it will be held in Bangkok, Thailand. If I correctly recall, our Asian bishops had earlier met in Pattaya, Thailand, better knownContinue Reading
By Astrid Lobo Gajiwala Bengaluru, Jan 19, 2023: I was privileged to attend an international conference on “Towards a Synodal Church: Moving Forward” in Bengaluru. The January 12-15 conference was organized by Bengaluru’s Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram (Pontifical Athenaeum) in collaboration with Chavara Central Secretariat in Kochi, Kerala. I must admitContinue Reading
By P A Chacko Sahibganj, Jan 18, 2023: The damning revelation by the Massachusetts-based digital forensic firm, Arsenal Consulting, that Father Stan Swamy’s computer was compromised and targeted by hackers for planting 44 incriminating documents, exposes the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and its masters. Because, the agency took these falselyContinue Reading
M.K.George S.J. To be honest, I have never been an admirer of Pope Benedict XVI. In fact, I must say, given the experience of him as the head of Vatican’s influential Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), I have had some strong prejudices. However, having been around duringContinue Reading
By M K George Rome, Dec 8, 2022: A Malayalam saying goes like this: “Even when a son beats up his mother, there will be two factions – one that supports the son and the other, the Mother.” That seems to be the case with the ending of the 140-dayContinue Reading
By Virginia Saldanha Mumbai, Dec 3, 2022: Recently the Jesuit run “America Magazine” interviewed Pope Francis on various topical issues, among them was the question regarding what he would say to women who are already serving in the Church, but who also feel strongly the call to be a priestContinue Reading
By chhotebhai Kanpur, Nov 19, 2022: By “conversion” I here mean the explicit act of baptizing a non-Christian to make such a person Christian. We know that the right-wing Hindutva brigade has always been against religious conversion, thinly veiled as “forceful conversion.” Several anti-conversion laws have been passed in variousContinue Reading
By Cedric Prakash Ahmedabad, Nov 7, 2022: November 3, 2022, was a special day indeed! On that day, Pope Francis began a four-day historic visit to the Kingdom of Bahrain, where he was given an exceptionally warm welcome! From the time he arrived in Bahrain, he set the tone ofContinue Reading
