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Minorities Commission objects to school circular to recite ‘Gayatri mantra’‍

The Delhi Minorities Commission has issued a notice to the North civic body over a circular issued by it for recital of ‘Gayatri Mantra’ in schools run by its education department. Chairman of Delhi Minorities Commission(DMC) Zafarul Islam Khan said the notice was recently issued to the educatio

The Orthodox Church is on the brink of a new Great Schism

For centuries, the archbishops of Constantinople could credibly claim to be the “Ecumenical Patriarch”. Their see was the “New Rome”, centre of the oikoumenç, the “inhabited world”. Today, their successor, Patriarch Bartholomew, looks beleaguered. The guards around his residence in the Phanar quarter of Istanbul reveal his threatened position in an increasingly Islamified Turkey. But […]

Pope: Eastern-rite priests’ families offer unique example

The families of Eastern-rite Catholic priests give an important witness to what is healthy and wonderful about family life, Pope Francis said. Speaking to laypeople, clergy and religious of the Slovak Catholic Church – a Byzantine-rite Church that has maintained its tradition of ordaining both celibate and married men – the Pope said, “the families […]

Pope Francis calls for a youth synod ‘anointed by hope’

  Pope Francis began the Synod on young people Oct. 3 with a homily call-ing for the Holy Spirit to renew hope and dynamism in the Church. Hope can “broaden our horizons, expand our hearts and transform those frames of mind that today paralyze, separate and alienate us from young people,” said Pope Francis. The […]

Cardinal Marx calls for ‘fundamental, systemic change’ to confront abuse crisis

The German prelate who serves on Pope Francis’ advisory body of cardinals has called for the Catholic Church to adopt “fundamental, systemic change” in order to address the continuing clergy sexual abuse crisis. Cardinal Reinhard Marx, one of nine members on the Council of Cardinals, suggested discussions about such change could focus on three areas: […]

Archbishop apologizes for Church scandals, justifies nuns’ protest

A Catholic prelate on October 2 apologized for recent scandals involving Church leaders around the world and justified some Indian nuns coming to the street for justice. “We are in the land of Mahatma Gandhi, promoter of Satyagraha and the only condition is that our strikes should be of ahimsa and not of violence,” Arch-bishop […]