By Irudhaya Jothi Kailashahar (Tripura), Nov 13, 2021: Dalits are demanding Indo-Dalit individual Church and Rite when the Church in India is celebrating Dalit Liberation Sunday on November 14. Dalit Liberation Sunday is celebrated every year since 2007 by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) in collaboration with theContinue Reading
By Virginia Saldanha Mumbai, Nov. 9, 2021: While all appreciate Pope Francis forging ahead appointing women to positions in the Vatican, there are questions raised about these appointments. Here, I bring some more voices of women representing laity of the Indian Catholic Church. The first question is, why are onlyContinue Reading
By Noella de Souza Mumbai, Nov 7, 2021: “Indians cheer Italian nun at key Vatican post” is the headline of a news report, but surprisingly the leaders of the sisters in India who have commented are precisely the ones who are the slowest in bringing about change in the livesContinue Reading
By Don Aguiar. Mumbai, Nov 5, 2021: Stalin once ripped all the feathers off a live chicken as a lesson to his followers. He then set the chicken on the floor a short distance away. The chicken was bloodied and suffering immensely, yet, when Stalin began to toss some bitsContinue Reading
By Varghese Alengaden Indore, Oct 29, 2021: India was blessed by many foreigners who came to India and made it their home. Many of them not only mastered Indian languages but also wrote dictionaries, translated the Bible in to Indian languages and made research in Indian culture and Hindu scriptures.Continue Reading
By chhotebhai Kanpur, Oct 28, 2021: What a silly question. It is just eleven kilometres from Jerusalem. There’s more to it than meets the eye though. There are just two references to Emmaus in the Bible, one each in both the Testaments. In the light of the Synod on SynodalityContinue Reading
By chhotebhai Kanpur, Oct 21`, 2021: Two friends from different parts of India sent me the now viral letter about priests and trusts. The letter No 0899/21/IN dated October 8, 2021 is written by Archbishop Leopoldo Girelli, the apostolic nuncio to India. It is addressed to the bishops of TamilContinue Reading
By Dr. George Jacob Kochi, Oct 18, 2021: Farmers, mostly from Punjab, Haryana and Western Uttar Pradesh have been camping at several border points in Delhi since 26 November 2020 demanding repeal of three laws Modi government passed in Parliament in September 2020. From the outset, these laws were fatedContinue Reading
By George Kannanthanam Bengaluru, Oct 16, 2021: Today (October 16) is World Food Day, I urge the Church in India to convene a Food Summit. It is time the Church in India called for a Food Summit. With more than 800 million people living in hunger worldwide and good manyContinue Reading
By Don Aguiar Mumbai, Oct 16, 2021: One of the tragedies of contemporary Catholicism is that the Church has become overly politicized. We are not talking about being political in the elevated sense of the word — that is, committed to the ecclesial community as well as to the polis.Continue Reading
