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
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, August 6, 2023: The protracted liturgical controversy in the archdiocese of Ernakulam seems to get murkier as its faithful on August 6 rejected a circular on the uniform mode of celebrating Mass from the newly appointed delegate of Pope Francis. Jesuit Archbishop Cyril Vasil, whoContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, August 2, 2023: Catholics across India have reacted with dismay to a message on Manipur from Cardinal Oswald Gracias, a top Church leader in the country and one of the eight advisors of Pope Francis. The cardinal’s comments “were shocking, uncalled for and totally unjustified,Continue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, July 31, 2023: Pope Francis on July 31 appointed Jesuit Archbishop Cyril Vasil, former secretary of the Office for Eastern Churches and presiding officer of the Greek Catholic diocese of Kosice in Slovakia, as the pontifical delegate for the Syro-Malabar Archdiocese of Ernakulam-Angamaly in Kerala,Continue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, July 28, 2023: Activists and others have cheered India’s Supreme Court granting bail to a trade unionist and a lawyer jailed in the Bhima Koregaon case. “The granting of bail to Arun Ferreira and Vernon Gonsalves by the Supreme Court is indeed a significant step.Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Gwalior, July 24, 2023: The Madhya Pradesh High Court has ordered a fresh probe into the death of a Catholic bishop in the central Indian state. Bishop Thomas Thennatt of Gwalior died in a road accident on December14, 2018 and his family members suspected foul playContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, July 24, 2023: A top team of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India that visited the conflict-ridden areas of Manipur has criticized the prolonged silence and apathy of the law enforcement agencies in containing violence in the northeastern Indian state. “It is our earnest appealContinue Reading
