Mumbai: St Pius X College, the major seminary of the Archdiocese of Bombay, October 5 celebrated its sixty years of existence. Cardinal Oswald Gracias, Archbishop of Bombay, celebrated the thanksgiving Mass at the seminary located at Goregaon West. The seminary has been instrumental in training ‘Ambassadors for Christ’ for WesternContinue Reading
Assisi: Pope Francis on October 3 signed his new encyclical, Fratelli tutti, during a visit to Assisi, an Italian town associated with St Francis of Assisi. In his first official trip outside Rome since the pandemic struck Italy, the Pope celebrated Mass at the tomb of his namesake, St. FrancisContinue Reading
Secunderabad: The Catholic Health Association of India (CHAI) has mourned the death of one of its members, Sister John Sahya Rani. She died of Covid-19 at the age of 51. She had been in the Intensive Care Unit for about 12 days and succumbed to Covid-19 at 4 pm onContinue Reading
Rome: The tomb of Venerable Carlo Acutis was opened for public veneration October 1 ahead of the computer-programming teen’s beatification. A spokeswoman for Acutis’ beatification told Catholic News Agency that the entire body was present, but “not incorrupt.” “Today we … see him again in his mortal body. A bodyContinue Reading
Kolkata: Pope Francis on September 30 elevated Bishop Bejoy Nicephorus D’Cruze as the archbishop of Dhaka, Bangladesh. The oblate prelate, who currently heads the diocese of Sylhet, succeeds Cardinal Patrick D’Rozario as the head of the archdiocese that covers the national capital. The announcement was made at noon in theContinue Reading
Bengaluru: Archbishop Filipe Neri Ferrão, president of the Conference of Catholic Bishops’ of India (CCBI), will release the new directory for catechesis on October 1. CCBI is a national body of Latin Rite bishops of India. The directory, prepared by the Pontifical Council for Promoting New Evangelization of the HolyContinue Reading
Balliguda: Six dioceses in Odisha, eastern India, found various ways to recruit candidates for priesthood during the coronavirus pandemic. While the minor seminary of Archdiocese of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar has no seminarian this year, other dioceses adopted new methods to candidates. “I am sad that we have no seminarians in the currentContinue Reading
Jaipur: Two priests were on September 27 ordained for Jaipur, one of the three dioceses in the northwestern Indian state of Rajasthan. Bishop Oswald Lewis of Jaipur led the ordination ceremonies of Fathers Jackson Rodrigues and Vishal Madtha at 5 at Our Lady of Annunciation Cathedral in Malviya Naga, aContinue Reading
Bangkok: Christians in Thailand are celebrating after 1,435 people were baptized in a huge outdoor event. Believers from five different provinces of the Southeastern country gathered September 23 at a reservoir in central Thailand for the ceremony. Church planting groups Free in Jesus Christ Association (FJCCA) and Reach a VillageContinue Reading
Manila, Sept. 25, 2020: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Catholic Church has decided to prolong by one year the quincentennial celebration of the arrival of Christianity in the Philippines. The supposed culminating activity in April, 2021, would now be the launch of a year-long celebration that will end inContinue Reading
