By Saramma Emmanuel Bhopal: Latin rite bishops in India have pledged to reorient the Church’s functioning to address issues such as interreligious marriages, single parent, differently abled children, grieving and bereaved, migrants, sick, elderly, transgenders and those living in dire poverty. A decision to this effect was taken at theContinue Reading

By Saramma Emmanuel Bhopal: Cardinal Oswald Gracias, archbishop of Bombay, on February 5 favored the demand to declare as martyrs Catholics killed in the anti-Christian violence in Odisha’s Kandhamal district. The prelate’s support to the Odisha Church’s demand came during the release of a book titled “Kandhamal Introspection of InitiativeContinue Reading

By Saramma Emmanuel Bhopal: The new generation couples believe in sharing their life equally unlike in the past and parental interference in their life lead to 80 per cent cases of marriage separation, says P A Edwin, a church councilor from Chennai addressing the Catholic bishops participating in the 29thContinue Reading

By: Mattersindia Reporter Bhopal: The Catholic Church has endorsed an Indian Supreme Court (SC) order that invalidated Church courts or ecclesiastic tribunals annulling marriage of a Catholic couple here on January 30. The president of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of India (CCBI) Cardinal Oswald Gracias said, “there is noContinue Reading