By Matters India Reporter Kochi, Oct. 26, 2018: The Syro-Malabar Church on October 25 launched “Smart Catechism,” a web portal offering online classes in matters of faith. The web portal is expected to benefit around 400,000 students attending catechism classes from grades 1 to 12 in India and overseas. TheContinue Reading
About 45 scholars of philosophy and theology attended the seminarContinue Reading
London, Oct 24: In beginning of October, Archbishop Malcolm McMahon of Liverpool requested that every priest in his archdiocese invite the faithful to revive the practice of reciting the rosary on a regular, if not daily, basis. Some priests then went so far as to dedicate homilies to explaining toContinue Reading
New York, Oct. 23, 2018: In the wake of recent reports concerning widespread sexual harassment and sexual abuse at seminaries, an American seminary professor has suggestions for how the seminary process could improve. Fr. Thomas Berg, a professor of moral theology and director of admissions at St. Joseph’s Seminary inContinue Reading
Boho, Co. Fermanagh: Oct 23: Sunday Mass was not delivered in an Irish village for the first time in 1,500 years due to the shortage of Catholic priests. The Church of the Sacred Heart, in Boho, Co. Fermanagh, stands on the site of an early Christian monastery dating back toContinue Reading
Nirmala Carvalho Mumbai, Oct 20, 2018: For 50 years, the Handmaids of the Sacred Heart of Jesus religious congregation has served the most marginalized in India pointing “to the presence of God” in their hearts. The religious congregation was founded in Spain in 1877 and first sent a group ofContinue Reading
Bengaluru, Oct 18, 2018: A rigid dress code banning jeans pant, trousers and Bermuda shorts has been put in place at the Mahabaleshwar Temple in Gokarna, a popular pilgrimage center, by its administration. “The restrictions were already there but we implemented them a month ago,” the executive officer of GokarnaContinue Reading
The temple at Sabarimala is open to people of all religionsContinue Reading
By Robin Gomes Vatican City, Oct. 17, 2018: Young Catholics of India are like the fragile and sinful men and women disciples of Jesus yearning for His living water. These young people are urging the Church leadership to be an authentic inspiration on living the faith and to provide themContinue Reading
Celebrating the Peace and Harmony in ScriptureContinue Reading