By Nirmala Carvalho Mumbai: Caritas India will send immediate aid to people in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand who have been hit by floods caused by a great avalanche. Cardinal Oswald Gracias, president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India, said this while talking to AsiaNews on February 8, aContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi: The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) has expressed its grief over the Uttarakhand glacier calamity and offered its condolences to the family members of those who have died or are missing in the incident. The death toll from the disaster rose to 28Continue Reading
By Nirmala Carvalho Mumbai: As Cardinal Oswald Gracias marks his 50th priestly anniversary, colleagues note that he is “gifted with intelligence, leadership qualities and altruistic nature.” Cardinal Gracias, the archbishop of Bombay and president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India, was ordained to the priesthood on December 20, 1970,Continue Reading
Mumbai : With Christmas just over a week away, Archbishop of Bombay Cardinal Oswald Gracias on December 15 sounded a note of caution, asking churches and parishioners to follow the guidelines in place in view of the pandemic. Issuing a slew of guidelines and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for churchesContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Mumbai: The Archdiocese of Bombay has decided to open churches in a graded way after the Maharashtra government permitted opening of places of worship from November 16. “Keeping in mind the experience of churches in other states which opened earlier, we thought it best to haveContinue Reading
By Oswald Gracias Mumbai: Mother Teresa, my personal friend, often said that “charity and love are the same thing: with charity you give love, so don’t just give money, but stretch out your hand instead . . .” The hands of the Church in India stretch out to the poor,Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi: Pope’s Francis’ recent comments on gay civil union are misunderstood and misinterpreted, says Cardinal Oswald Gracias, the head of the Catholic Church in India and one of the seven advisers of the pontiff. “There is no change in the Church doctrine at all. TheContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Aug 31, 2020: The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) on August 31 expressed deep sadness over the death of former President Pranab Mukherjee earlier in the day. Mukherjee passed away after he developed a lung infection at New Delhi’s Army’s Research and ReferralContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Mumbai, Aug 19, 2020: Cardinal Oswald Gracias has cautioned the priests of his Bombay archdiocese to not let their guard down as they have resumed pastoral activities as the administration has relaxed lockdown norms. The cardinal’s caution came in the wake of some priests succumbing toContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporters New Delhi, Aug 2, 2020: Cardinal Oswald Gracias, president of Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India, says a positive side of the coronavirus pandemic is the realization among city dwellers that they cannot live without migrants. “For the first time we realized the importance of migrants forContinue Reading
