By Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-Kiun Beijing, Oct 24, 2018: In September, the Vatican announced that it had come to a provisional agreement with the government of China over the appointment of Catholic bishops. Supporters of the deal say that it finally brings unity after longstanding division — between an undergroundContinue Reading
By Medha Patkar and Sandeep Pandey The legendary Professor Guru Das Agrawal, who got promoted from a lecturer directly to professor at the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur after having finished his PhD from University of California at Berkeley in two years and laid the foundation of India’sContinue Reading
By Irudaya Jothi SJ Kolkata, October 16, 2018: Every year, October 16 is celebrated all over the world as “World Food Day.” ‘Our actions are our future’ is the theme for this year’s ‘The World Food Day’. The day commemorates the foundation of Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) of theContinue Reading
By Uddalak Mukherjee The night was not quite a night of long knives. Ten years ago, the knives — a metaphorical allusion to murder, rape and arson — were unsheathed for months, from August to December, in Odisha’s hilly Kandhamal region. It was one of the worst instances of targetedContinue Reading
By Bhawana Bisht Rape is a heinous crime. It happens every minute of every day in one part of the country or another. The crime happens to women across social and economic standing; it happens across religion, caste and regions. This is regardless of which political party has formed theContinue Reading
Tribal people are asserting their rights over land, water and forestContinue Reading
There has been little effort at rebuilding livesContinue Reading
By John Dayal We as a community must demand that Franco Mulakkal, the former bishop of the Jalandhar Catholic diocese, in the northwestern Punjab state, [suspended, or how do we describe his present canonical position], be tried in a fast track court on the charges of multiple rapes of aContinue Reading
By Joseph Mani Whenever a scandal or scam among the clergy comes to light, the apologists for the Church point out that a few rotten apples do not make the whole basket of apples rotten. They point out that for every Varghese, Mulakkal and McCarrick there are ten priests, bishopsContinue Reading
The Church in India has to learn some lessons from this sordid episodeContinue Reading