By Cedric Prakash Our world today (particularly, India) is broken and fragmented; divisiveness, hate and violence hold way! The people cry out for exemplars: women and men who can transcend exclusiveness, pettiness and jingoism! Those who have the prophetic courage to be visible and vocal and who make efforts toContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, March 14, 2024: Archbishop Geevaghese Mar Ivanios, the first head of the Syro-Malankara Church, advanced on the sainthood path on March 14 when Pope Francis elevated him as a Venerable. Archbishop Ivanios, who is known as the Newman of the East, is currently a ServantContinue Reading
By Stanislaus Alla New Delhi, Feb 5, 2024: Fraternity is very close to the heart of Pope Francis. Historians will employ ‘fraternity’ as an important key to unlock, understand and interpret the ministry of Pope Francis. Personally, he embodies the virtue of fraternity even as he regularly refers to itContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Kochi, Jan 26, 2024: Nuns in a southern Indian archdiocese find themselves caught between a papal order and the local priests and Catholics who defy the pope’s ultimatum on how to celebrate Mass. The situation in the Ernakulam-Angamaly Archdiocese is “disgusting and frightening,” said Sr. Linet ofContinue Reading
By Stanislaus Alla New Delhi, Jan 20, 2024: Several of us have our own bucket lists: starting with a list of places to visit, persons to meet, delicacies to relish, books to read, things to achieve, goals to realize etc. In the life of the Church, the liturgical calendar remindsContinue Reading
By Deborah Castellano Lubov Rome, Jan 3, 2023: Pope Francis has expressed his closeness to those suffering and who have lost loved ones in a deadly earthquake in central Japan that has claimed at least 48 lives. According to a telegram sent on the Pope’s behalf by Vatican Secretary ofContinue Reading
By Carlos Luis Bengaluru, Jan 2, 2023: To support the holistic development of people and communities, new technologies must constantly be focused on promoting peace and the common good. Pope Francis calls on world leaders to ensure that advancements in artificial intelligence development will eventually advance human brotherhood and peaceContinue Reading
By Stanislaus Alla New Delhi, Dec 18, 2023: In a groundbreaking declaration, the Vatican announced December 18 that same-sex couples and others, living in irregular relationships, could seek and receive a blessing. Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernadez, the recently appointed Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine for the Faith announcedContinue Reading
Vatican City, Dec 13, 2023: Pope Francis has revealed that he will be buried in the Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome. The Pope, who has shunned much of the Vatican’s pomp and privilege, has decided to vastly simplify the elaborate funeral rites for a pontiff and be theContinue Reading
By Salvatore Cernuzio Vatican City, Dec 12, 2023: Pope Francis on December 11 received in audience Jesuit Archbishop Cyril Vasil, the Pontifical Delegate to the Archeparchy of Ernakulam-Angamaly, on the eve of the latter’s departure for Kerala, southern India, the base of the Syro-Malabar Church. On December 7 December, PopeContinue Reading