Religious persons in the Catholic Church should first become disciples of Jesus before trying to make others His followers, says former Supreme Court judge Justice Kurian Joseph. “Becoming a disciple of Jesus is a difficult task whereas becoming a devotee is easy. Our...
Faced with the evil done to children, “no one can remain silent,” says Bishop John Rodrigues, rector of the Basilica of Our Lady of Mount Bandra (Mumbai). The prelate was addressing the Mass on December 28 for the feast day of the Holy Innocents, which commemorates...
Father Cedric Prakash of the Jesuit Gujarat Province has just returned from the Middle East after a three-year stint with the Jesuit Refugee Service there. On his religious vocation he says: “That is a long story: to cut it short – it was a CALL – and I said “YES” to...
India’s Latin-rite bisho-ps were gathering in the hold-ing their plenary assembly in the seaside town of Mahabalipuram in southern India’s Tamil Nadu State. The Conference of Catholic Bishops of India (CCBI) of the Latin-rite bishops, was held its 31st plenary...
Ten years ago, Hindu nationalists persecuted and destroyed their home during the pogroms in the district of Kandhamal, in Orissa. They both decided to serve the Church in consecrated life. They are Fr Anand Pradhan and Sr Anjali Pradhan, brother and sister, who...
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