For the past three years, Pope Francis has handpicked a Christmas card to celebrate advent and the birth of Jesus Christ, and this year’s choice features two baby Jesuses. The Pope picked Giotto di Bondone’s 14th Century fresco of the Nativity in Assisi accompanied by a verse from the bookContinue Reading
Vatican: The Catholic Church has reiterated that homosexuals and those with “deep-seated homosexual tendencies” should not be admitted to seminaries or ordained priests. A new document from the Vatican’s Congregation for Clergy released on December also bars those supports the so-called “gay culture” from centers for training men to becomeContinue Reading
London: A Christmas-themed board game that pits Jesus against Santa has been described as “offensive, shocking and blasphemous”. Santa vs Jesus, made by London company Komo Games, is played by two teams – one for each of the festive figures – who battle through challenges in an attempt to winContinue Reading
The head of the Pope’s doctrine division has called for divisions over the treatment of divorced and remarried Catholics to end. Cardinal Gerhard Müller, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, has indicated that the Vatican will not be responding to a letter from the four cardinalsContinue Reading
Milan, Italy: On Thursday, November 24, 2016, Cardinal Angelo Scola closed the diocesesan phase in the canonization process for Carlo Acutis, a 15-year-old Italian boy who died in 2006 of leukemia. He was a well-loved teenager who devoted himself to prayer and daily Mass as well as computer programming, filmContinue Reading
Vatican City: “Dear Paolina, your photos are on my desk, because in your very special gaze I see the light of goodness and innocence. Thank you for sending them to me!” the Pope said at the beginning of his letter. He instructed the girl to “read this letter together withContinue Reading
By Mattersindia reporter New Delhi: Jesuit Father Francis Xavier has been appointed as the Vice President for Academics and Research for Jesuit Worldwide Learning (JWL), said Dr. Z. Devasagaya Raj, secretary, of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) Office for SC/BC (Dalits and Backward classes), New Delhi. “We areContinue Reading
By: Adolf Washington. Bengaluru: An Australian-born nun’s remains were exhumed November 28th, 10 am in the southern Indian city of Bengaluru. A tent enveloped the grave of Sr. Mary Glowrey while priests, laity and nuns from the congregation Sacred Heart -JMJ looked-on with Archbishop Bernard Moras of Bangalore as theContinue Reading
By: A. Elango . Indian Jesuits mourned the death of their former Superior General Peter – Hans Kolvenbach. Fr. Kolvenbach was elected as Superior General of the Society of Jesuits on September 13, 1983 and stepped down as General on January 14, 2008. He died at the age of 87 onContinue Reading
Alappuzha: Archbishop of Changanassery archdiocese, Mar Joseph Perumthottam on Sunday declared Champakulam St Mary’s Syro-Malabar Catholic Forane Church as basilica. Archdioces vicar generals Joseph Mundakathil and James Palackil, archdiocese chancellor Dr Tom Puthenkalam and procurator Fr Philip Thayil also attended the holy mass held in connection with the declaration. TheContinue Reading
