By Matters India Reporter Kochi, Sept 13, 2023: The Conference of Catholic Bishops of India (CCBI) has published the Directory for Lay Catechists that contains directives and norms regarding the identity, formation, and role of lay catechists. The directory was released September 12 by Archbishop Joseph Kalathiparambil of Verapoly, byContinue Reading
By Felix Anthony Guwahati, Sept 10, 2023: The Church in North East India came together to study Pope Francis’ latest encyclical Fratelli Tutti to promote universal brotherhood and fraternity within the Church and with the people of other faiths. Archbishop John Moolachira of Guwahati, who heads the Church in theContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Sept 10, 2023: A private Mass was celebrated in a luxury hotel for United States President Joe Biden, a devout Catholic. The US embassy in the Indian capital requested Father Nicholas Dias, secretary of the liturgy commission of the archdiocese of Delhi, to offerContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Sept 6, 2023: Jesuits in northeastern India are mourning the sudden death of a seminarian from Manipur in the early hours of September 6 at a village in Meghalaya state. Scholastic Joseph Wungmayon died of a massive heart attack around 2 am in BangongsingweggreContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Pilar, Aug 29, 2023: The participants of a seminar on the “Basics of interreligious dialogue” have resolved to organize parish level programs to create awareness among the Goan Catholics about the need to interact with people of other religions. They plan to spend “quality time” withContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kochi, Aug 24, 2023: A movement that leads the dissidents in the archdiocese of Ernakulam-Angamaly has denied reports that four priests have been ordered out of a seminary for refusing to adopt the uniform mode of the liturgy. “Those priests are still in the seminary andContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, Aug 23, 2023: Jesuit Archbishop Cyril Vasil, the papal representative appointed to resolve the liturgy dispute in the Archdiocese of Ernakulam-Angamaly, has left for Rome after completing the first phase of his mission, says a press statement. The delegate will apprise Pope Francis and theContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, Aug 20, 2023: Archbishop Andrews Thazhath of Trichur, the apostolic administrator of Ernakulam-Angamaly, says disobedience to the Pope’s delegate would mean ouster from the Catholic Church. The Pope has through his delegate announced the final decision on the long-standing controversy over Mass in the archdiocese,Continue Reading
By John Pulinthanam Below is a letter from a senior Catholic layman of the Ernakulam-Angamaly archdiocese to Jesuit Archbishop Cyril Vasil, who has come to Kerala as the Pope’s delegate to resolve the dispute over the mode of offering Mass. The Catholic feels being pushed from disappointment to serious doubtsContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kochi, Aug 15, 2023: Jesuit Archbishop Cyril Vasil, papal delegate to the archdiocese of Ernakulam-Angamaly, on August 15 urged the faithful to obey Pope Francis and avoid troublemakers who oppose the uniform mode of celebrating Mass. “Are you with the Pope or against him?” this wasContinue Reading
