By Varghese Alengaden Indore, June 20, 2020: Although I have friends from Bahai religion I was ignorant that it was a religion without priests. For the first time, I attended a Bahai funeral when one of my friends passed away. With many friends and relatives, I also went to aContinue Reading
By M L Satyan Bengaluru, June 19, 2020: Of late we have been frequently hearing about sex scandals involving priests and nuns/lay women, misappropriation of church funds/properties, misuse of authority and murders in the Catholic church. Some recent cases are Kadapa bishop who resigned, former bishop of Jalandhar, bishop ofContinue Reading
By Jacob Peenikaparambil Indore, June 17, 2020: The unprecedented spread of coronavirus in India should have increased sensitivity and concern for each other. But the opposite is happening such as objecting the burial of dead bodies of Covid-19 victims, leaving dead bodies unattended by family members, and ostracizing persons inContinue Reading
By Fr. Cedric Prakash SJ Ahmedabad, June 15, 2020: In 1972, David Campton, a prolific British dramatist, wrote an apparently innocuous, straight- forward and simple one-act play entitled ‘Us and Them.’ The play begins innocently enough with two groups of wanderers looking for an ‘ideal’ place to settle. They doContinue Reading
By Varghese Alengaden Indore, June 10, 2020: I was delighted to read the Matters India report about Pope Francis calling Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso, Texas, on June 3. The US bishop had joined a demonstration against racial discrimination to pray for George Floyd, an African-American killed by aContinue Reading
By Varghese Alengaden Indore, June 8, 2020: George Floyd, 46-year-old African American, was the latest victim of racial atrocity in America. A white police officer in Minneapolis caught Floyd, locked his hands behind, pushed him on the ground and pressed his knee on his neck. It was reported that theContinue Reading
By Jacob Peenikaparambil Indore, June 7, 2020: It is nothing but outrageous that the tragic death of a pregnant elephant in Kerala is being used to spread the communal virus by the vicious minds. There is no doubt that the persons responsible for the death of the animal should beContinue Reading
By Suresh Mathew New Delhi, June 5, 2020: The Constitution of the United States of America starts with the words “We the people.” But George Floyd’s feeble voice “Please, please… I can’t breathe” as he was being crushed under the knees of Derek Chauvin, a fatty white police officer, changedContinue Reading
George Cheriyan and Nimisha Sharma Jaipur, June 4, 2020: Pressing times due to Covid-19 pandemic have once again reminded us the need of co-existence for a peaceful and beautiful world. As the world observes yet another World Environment Day on June 5, to remind us regarding the need to protectContinue Reading
by Lavina D’Souza Mumbai, June 2, 2020: For the past few weeks an entirely new experience has engulfed us here in Mumbai. Living in a commercial metropolitan city like Mumbai, where lives are defined by “rush,” and with everyone being busy all the time, I felt it too strange toContinue Reading
