By Leon Bent Mumbai, Nov. 15, 2018: The Catholic Church will celebrate the Christ the King feat on November 25 this year. Pope Pius XI started the feast in 1925. It is also called the ‘Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ,’ ‘King of the Universe Festival.’ It honors Jesus ChristContinue Reading
By Leon Bent Mumbai, Nov. 9, 2018: “Dasara, derived from the Sanskrit Dasha-hara meaning, “remover of bad fate,” is among the most important festivals celebrated in India. Regional spellings include Dashera, Dussera and Dussehra; following the ten-day grand, devotional, ethnic Gujarati, scintillating, delighting-the-senses, festival of Navratri. Diwali, the festival ofContinue Reading
By chhotebhai Kanpur, Nov. 3, 2018: How many lay Catholics in India can sincerely say “We are the Church”, or “Yes, this is our Church”? The laity feels largely marginalized. It is required only to raise funds, to organize a procession, or when some church personnel or institutions are underContinue Reading
By Nithiya Sagayam It is good to hear that Bishop Theodore Mascarenhas, the Secretary General of Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India has spoken about the need for non-violence and harmony in society. There is lot more to be done in India on the concerns of inter-religious dialogue now that everContinue Reading
By Debapriya Sen Vaite New Delhi, Oct. 31, 2018: The winter is settling down in Delhi. As the air is becoming smoky and unhealthy, proportionately, there is steady increase in the number of school children wearing masks while waiting for their school bus during early mornings. Parks will soon beContinue Reading
If we have opted to serve the poor, then all the properties and funds that we hold are also meant for the same purposeContinue Reading
By chhotebhai Kanpur, October 16, 2018: The “Me Too” moment seems to have arrived in India, with long suppressed secrets of sexual harassment tumbling out of the dark recesses of memory, to shame and shock the mighty – be they journalists, actors, sportspersons or politicians. Some would have us believeContinue Reading
By Varghese Alengaden Indore: “Father, how is the multinational Catholic company of India?” a visiting French social scientist asked me at the World Social Forum in Mumbai a few years ago. I recalled the French man’s question when I read the news about the demand for a Dalit Punjabi bishopContinue Reading
By Dr. George Jacob Kochi: The section 377 of the Indian Penal Code of 1861 criminalized sexual activities ‘against the order of nature’. People who choose to adopt sexual tendencies ‘against the order of nature’ are bracketed under a community popularly known as LGBT, which hogged the limelight through theirContinue Reading
