An ecumenical women’s forum says the inclusion of women for the feet washing ritual will help the Indian Church offer a healing touching amid clergy abuse cases. A symbolic representation of “inclusion liturgy” celebrated in parishes and Mass centres across India...
A visiting lecturer at Belgium’s Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) has been dismissed after arguing that abortion was murder in his philosophy class for first-year students and saying it could be “worse than rape.” The comments by Stéphane Mercier created an uproar...
Sister Rani Maria, Franciscan Clarist nun who was assassinated in central India 22 years ago, has been cleared for beatification by the Vatican on Mar 23. Beatification is the penultimate stage in the four-phased canonization process in the Catholic Church. Rani...
Mexicans who help build President Donald Trump’s planned border wall would be acting immorally and should be deemed traitors, the Catholic Archdiocese of Mexico said, turning up the heat on a simmering dispute over the project. In a provocative editorial published...
He could have been a researcher or an entrepreneur but he chose to get involved in civil society. And at the age of 54, Herman Kumara believes that he made the right choice. “I am really happy,” he says. “My former faculty comrades are earning money, sometimes a lot...
