By Matters India Reporters Kochi, Aug 20, 2023: Almost 95 percent parishes under the Ernakulam-Angamaly archdiocese offered the Sunday Masses on August 20 with the priest facing the congregation, rejecting the papal delegate’s order to follow the synod method or face excommunication, claim the dissidents. “The Ernakulam Archdiocese has completelyContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, Aug 19, 2023: Catholics in India are urging the papal delegate to not weaponize Eucharist to enforce obedience among the dissident priests of the Ernakulam-Angamaly archdiocese in Kerala. As Jesuit Archbishop Cyril Vasil’s threat of excommunication looms large on those dissident priests, Catholics in otherContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Cuttack, Aug 17, 2023: A Catholic nun, who survived gangrape, has gone back to a court to give evidence after a gap of nine years. The nun, who cannot be named because of legal reasons, appeared before the district and sessions judge court in Cuttack onContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kochi, Aug 15, 2023: Jesuit Archbishop Cyril Vasil, who has come to the southern Indian state of Kerala as Pope Francis’ delegate to resolve a liturgical dispute in the Ernakulam-Angamaly archdiocese, continues to face opposition from a large section of priests and lay people. On AugustContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Aug 14, 2023: The Supreme Court of India on August 14 refused to stay the anticipatory bail granted by the High Court of Madhya Pradesh to a Catholic bishop and a nun, accused of religious conversion. The apex court was hearing a petition fromContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Varanasi, Aug 12, 2023: A Catholic priest was among ten people arrested August 12 for opposing the demolition of a Gandhian center in Varanasi, a major town in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The member of the Indian Missionary Society and others were releasedContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Margao, August 10, 2023: Catholics in Goa have expressed relief after a Catholic priest was granted anticipatory bail in a case related to his homily that mentioned a 17th century warrior king. The Sessions Court in Margao, Goa’s commercial capital, on August 8 granted bail toContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Mangaluru, August 9, 2023: The contribution of Jesuit Father Jerome D’Souza as one of the architects of the Indian Constitution was recalled at a function in Mangaluru, southern India. Father D’Souza (1897-1977), a native of Mangaluru, was a member of India’s Constituent Assembly that met 1946-1950Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Panaji, August 8, 2023: The Catholic Church in Goa has distanced itself from a layman’s call to fellow Goans to unite or be doomed. The call appeared in an article published in the August 1-15 edition of the “Renewal,” the bimonthly pastoral bulletin of the ArchdioceseContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, August 7, 2023: The return of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi to the Indian Parliament 135 days after his disqualification has reassured people’s faith in the Indian judiciary, say some Christian intellectuals. Gandhi, who represented Kerala’s Wayanad constituency in the Lok Sabha, was reinstated August 7Continue Reading
