By GEORGE CASSIDY PAYNE Mother Teresa once wrote: “The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted, uncared for and deserted by everybody.” As Mother Teresa knew as well as anyone, there are individuals in the world who are combating the biggest diseasesContinue Reading
Fr Cedric Prakash Exactly seventy-three years ago on 27 January 1945,the Soviet Red Army liberated the Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camps in Poland. What was uncovered on that unforgettable winter morning was perhaps the most brutal stories in the history of humankind. Today a black-and –white plaque in Auschwitz stands testimony toContinue Reading
Ram Puniyani What should be the attitude of leaders’ visits to places of worship? The matter is very complex in a society like that of India where the hold of religion on the society has been strong and is becoming stronger. In many a Western countries where Christianity is theContinue Reading
Amid the joy there are also words of caution ahoy; the dirty under belly of the other India Continue Reading
There is no open condemnation of hounding of the Christian community even as we acknowledge the existence of an indirect official sanction and backing of the police-politician nexusContinue Reading
James Kottoor In the latest survey of world leaders done by Gallop international, which is usually about politicians in the secular world, the wonder of wonder is this: The highest placed person on the list isn’t a political leader, but a religious person: Pope Francis who has a 58% rating.Continue Reading
Father Suresh Mathew “The next wave of attacks on the Church could be for financial irregularities,” Cardinal George Pell, Vatican’s Prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy, had said a couple of years back. As one pores over the mountain of material flooding the media (specially in social media) onContinue Reading
Syed Firdaus Ashraf As a student of journalism in the early 1990s, I once attended a Dalit rally where speaker after speaker spoke about the atrocities Brahmins had unleashed against the Dalit community. After the rally, I called on my journalism guru, the venerable M V Kamath, who happened toContinue Reading
By Valson Thampu Fragmentation is the famine of life as we know it. Somewhere in the soul of every human being, the Wagnerian dome of life lies in smithereens. Our deepest longing is for wholeness, which eludes us like a mirage. The universal agony in the human predicament is theContinue Reading
