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Cardinal Gracias in Amazon Synod participants’ list

Cardinal Oswald Gracias, head of the Catholic Church in India, is among participants the Vatican has listed for the Special Assembly of Bishops for the Pan-Amazon region. The Vatican on September 21 published the list of participants for the October 6-27 to be held in Rome. Pope Francis on October 15, 2017, convened a Special […]

XLRI – JAMSHEDPUR HAS A NEW DIRECTOR

The Xavier School of Business Management, popularly known as XLRI  Jamshedpur, a premier Jesuit intuition has a new Director Rev. Fr P. Maria Joseph Christie, S.J. took over on 7th June, 2019 from Rev. Fr Abraham Enthesmkuzhy who handed over the reins of administration to Rev. Fr Christie, S.J. Fr Abraham was Director of XLRI […]

Patna Jesuit college joins Global Climate Strike

Students of St Xavier’s College of Management and Technology, Patna have expressed solidarity with the Global Climate Strike. They were among millions of students of colleges and schools who on September 27 took to streets at more than 4,500 demonstrations in at least 130 countries to demand politicians to urgently tackle the climate crisis. The […]

Church leaders warn Filipinos of martial law ‘horrors’

Church leaders have called on Filipinos never to forget the “horrors” of martial law, which was imposed across the country almost half a century ago. The declaration of martial law by late president Ferdinand Marcos resulted in thousands of human rights abuses. Amnesty International recorded over 100,000 victims, with at least 70,000 people arrested, 34,000 […]

India cracks down on foreign donations

Christian leaders in India are complaining that the nation’s pro-Hindu government is placing unfair restrictions on voluntary organizations receiving foreign funding. The federal home ministry on Sept. 16 announced changes to the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA). The new rules require all chief functionaries of voluntary groups to sign affidavits that they have not been […]

Indian prelate urges dialogue with Hindus over ‘forced conversion’

For almost a decade under St John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI, then-Monsignor Felix Machado was a primary architect of the Vatican’s inter-religious outreach, including putting together a star-studded 2002 summit of religious leaders in Assisi as a follow-up to John Paul’s historic, and deeply controversial, first such gathering in 1986. Machado, born in […]

German ‘synodal way’ is rapid response to abuse scandal, conference says

The bishops of Germany, reacting to an independent study of the extent of clerical sexual abuse in their country and its possible causes, chose to initiate a “synodal” process that was not a Synod or a plenary council. Building on a series of “listening sessions” the bishops held from 2011 to 2015, “we did not […]

Amazon abp backs ordination of married priests

Specifically, the bishop backed the ordination of married men as priests in the Amazon, supporting the idea of calling viriprobati, or tested married men, into the priesthood to serve isolated rural communities. Archbishop Rafael Cob of the Diocese of Puyo believes that an Oct 6-27 Synod of Bishops on the Pan-Amazon region convened by Francis […]