By M L Satyan Bengaluru, Jan 17, 2020: This is in response to a report titled “Love Jihad disturbs social peace: Syro-Malabar Synod” published in Matters India on January 15. The Syro-Malabar Church, the largest Christian denomination in Kerala, seems to have blamed the Islamic State for luring scores ofContinue Reading
By John Dayal New Delhi, Jan 15, 2020: It will be 21 years on January 21 since Graham Stuart Staines, an Australian missionary working with the lepers of Orissa, was burnt to death with his young sons Timothy and Philips. They were sleeping in their jeep parked in a forestContinue Reading
By Debapriya Sen Vaite New Delhi, Jan 11, 2020: There are moments in time, when the expressions of resilience demand to be acknowledged. As the protests against the new Citizenship Amendment Act broke in Assam, and spread across the country, what stood out, were some very powerful images of thousandsContinue Reading
By Fr Raymond de Souza Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 5, 2020: In 2019 we became more familiar with the life and mission of St John Henry Newman. Perhaps in 2020 we might learn something about Mar Ivanios, called the “Newman of the East” by his people. This year the Syro-Malankara Church, theContinue Reading
By Father Raymond J de Souza This Advent marks the 50 anniversary of the liturgical reform — the “novus ordo” or “new order” of Mass — after the Second Vatican Council. We get used to what becomes routine, but there was nothing routine about a new order of Mass. ToContinue Reading
By Jacob Peenikaparambil Indore, Dec. 19, 2019: The Hindi movie, Dharam, directed by Bhavana Thalwar, has brought out brilliantly the meaning of true religion as seeing God in human beings. Pandit Chaturvedi, the main character of the movie, adopts a boy child who was brought to his house by herContinue Reading
By Victor Ferrao Rachol, Dec 8, 2019: On December 4, the body of Sister Mary Sandra Vianney was found on a railway track in Hubli, Karnataka. Media reports said it was a case of suicide. Sister Vianney was among at least a dozen priests and nuns who ended their livesContinue Reading
By Virginia Saldanha Mumbai, Dec 7, 2019: After the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder, in 2012, the Justice Verma Commission, through an extensive consultative process put forward a number of recommendations to tighten the rape laws, make the investigation process more woman sensitive, and put safety measures in place byContinue Reading
By Dr. Valson Thampu As compared to those who are crying foul against Sister Lucy Kalappura’s Lucy’s book, Karthaavinte Naamathil (In the Name of the Lord), I have a disqualification. I have read it. I managed to get hold of the pdf version, pre-publication. In a context where everybody knowsContinue Reading
By Virginia Saldanha Mumbai, Dec 2, 2019: The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2019 was passed in parliament on the same day as the abrogation of article 370, with hardly any debate. Worst of all, there were some MPs who were seen on TV smirking and making fun duringContinue Reading
