Vatican City: Priests are not obligated to wash the feet of women during the Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Holy Thursday, a Vatican official has clarified. Cardinal Robert Sarah. prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments, told reporters in Rome on February 26 thatContinue Reading
A series of essays in the semiofficial Vatican newspaper is urging the Catholic Church to allow women to preach from the pulpit at Mass, a role that has been reserved almost exclusively to the all-male priesthood for nearly 800 years. “This topic is a delicate one, but I believe itContinue Reading
Pope Francis has issued a decree changing the way that the Holy Thursday foot-washing rite is celebrated around the world. The decree was published today by the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments and signed by prefect Cardinal Robert Sarah. The decree says that the riteContinue Reading
Panaji: Very high figures of over 4,000 rescued trafficked women in Goa during 10 months of 2015 documented in reply to a question in the Parliament recently has puzzled NGOs working in rescue work as well as the Crime Branch of State police. The number of rescued trafficked women in GoaContinue Reading
New Delhi: Christians from across the country on Monday condemned the “growing” intolerance in India and criticised “sinister attempts” to do away with the reservation policy. “In unequivocal terms we denounce the growing intolerance in the country. We also denounce the sinister attempts to do away with reservation policy andContinue Reading
Eighty-five percent of India’s family planning budget is used to promote and conduct sterilisations on women, the head of a prominent charity said on Friday, calling for more funds to be channelled towards providing alternative forms of contraception. Poonam Muttreja, executive director of the Population Foundation of India (PFI), saidContinue Reading
