By Varghese Alengaden Indore: Celebrations of birthdays of persons, foundation days of institutions and jubilees of different types have become common in our society. Much money, time and energy are wasted for exhibiting pomp and show by persons and institutions. Often people count the years of mere existence instead ofContinue Reading
By Lissy Maruthanakuzhy Panaji: Quick decision, desire to help another, ready to dare, selflessness are some of the thoughts that run across my mind when I read the story of the little Hebrew girl and Naaman, the official (2 Kings 5:1-19) She was brought as a slave in the houseContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi: A Jesuit priest says the way Muslims celebrate the month of Ramzan helps him grow in God-consciousness as a Christian. The month of Ramzan falls in April this year “I consciously use the word ‘celebrate’ because I have personally experienced and seen Muslim friends—sistersContinue Reading
By Fr. Cedric Prakash SJ Ahmedabad: Let us Celebrate St. Joseph! On his Feast Day (March 19) and on every single day of this year dedicated to him. In his Apostolic Letter ‘Patris Corde’ (With a Father’s Heart), Pope Francis recalls the 150th anniversary of the declaration of Saint JosephContinue Reading
By Varghese Alengaden Indore: Sister Loretta Pinto, who worked in Catholic Relief Services after becoming the first nun in India to pass MSW, passed on March 14 at Villa St. Joseph, Mysore, after prolonged age-related illness. The member of the Carmelite Sisters of St Teresa was 90. The Hindi saying,Continue Reading
By Cedric Prakash SJ Ahmedabad: Today, March 12, has two significant anniversaries. Ninety-one years ago, in 1930, Mahatma Gandhi began his famous protest, the Dandi March, not far from the Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad to protest the tax salt imposed by the British. It was a Civil Disobedience movement –Continue Reading
By chhotebhai (Concluding part of the Trilogy “Love’s Dark Secrets” & “Love Jihad- Catholic Style”) Kanpur: Tubal Cain was a man of might In the days when the earth was young. Tubal Cain faded into the twilight By the queen bee he was stung! The first two lines of theContinue Reading
Shiv Visvanathan Sonepat: My father was a brilliant metallurgist who worked for the Tatas. We lived in Jamshedpur and would go for long walks. He loved the forests around the city. I remember one evening as we walked, the Tata ‘mountains’ poured out their slag — molten and incandescent —Continue Reading
By Sister Luisa Derouen Kentucky: Courtney Sharp is the first transgender woman I met, back in 1999, and we have remained friends all these years. I got an email from her recently. She had just read the document from June 2020 written by retiring Archbishop Robert Carlson regarding transgender people.Continue Reading
Ur: Here is the full prepared text of Pope Francis’ address at an interreligious meeting, delivered March 6, 2021, in the Plain of Ur, the birthplace of Abraham in Iraq. Dear brothers and sisters. This blessed place brings us back to our origins, to the sources of God’s work, toContinue Reading