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Reflections on Covid-19 and its impacts on our lifestyle‍

Bp Mathew Arackal On 25 March 2020, just like the announcement of demonetization on 8 November, 2016, 1.38 billon Indians came under lockdown, in four hours’ notice, leaving thousands of travellers stranded, hundreds of truck drivers stuck on the highways and as many students trapped in their host

In The World of Finance It Is Normal to Sacrifice People – Pope Francis

Austen Ivereigh Toward the end of March I suggested to Pope Francis that this might be a good moment to address the English-speaking world: the pandemic that had so affected Italy and Spain was now reaching the United Kingdom, the United States, and Australia. Without promising anything, he asked me to send some questions. I […]

Sewer Cleaners Wanted in Pakistan: Only Christians Need Apply

Zia ur-Rehman and Maria Abi-Habib Before Jamshed Eric plunges deep below Karachi’s streets to clean out clogged sewers with his bare hands; he says a little prayer to Jesus to keep him safe. The work is gruelling, and he wears no mask or gloves to protect him from the stinking sludge and toxic plumes of […]

A Shock and Definitive Defeat, But Responded Responsibly and Positively

Fr. Willim Nellikal Journalist, Vatican News Malayalam Section Rome The World has been severely affected by the corona pandemic, how do you think the Pope is responding to it? Vatican as a small state; its spiritual and material activities these days show the great concern the Pope has for humanity. When for the first time […]

Salvation without grey Zones

Fr Dr Sooraj George Pittappillil While penning down these reflections, confined within the four walls of my room in anti-corona quarantine, I am reminded of the warning Dante places over the threshold of hell, in his Divine Comedy: lasciateognisperanza (abandon all hope)! When corona looms up ahead in apocalyptic proportions, billions of people worldwide can […]

When plagues cry for an earthquake in Christian history

Fr Paul Thelakat Albert Camus published The Plague in June 1947, three years after the liberation of Paris from the Nazis. It could be read as an allegory of Nazi occupation, the brown plague. The plague spreads in an Algerian city called Oran. Exiting his office one morning, protagonist Bernard Rieux pauses to note that […]

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