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Founder of Kerala’s Vincentian congregation on sainthood path

Father Varkey Kattarath, the founder of Vincentian Congregation, will be declared a Servant of God soon, marking the commencement of the cause for his canonization. The priest was born on October 31, 1851, and died on October 24, 1931. His mortal remains were interred at St Gregorious Church, Thottakam.

Indian Church to use new English lectionary from April

The Conference of Catholic Bishops of India (CCBI) will release the new English lectionary for the Church in India on February 16 and it will come into effect from Palm Sunday, on April 5. The conference claims the new lectionary’s publication is a landmark in the Indian Church history and that it is a contribution […]

Pope shows up unannounced at funeral of lay woman and friend

Despite the ethereal air that has often surrounded popes over the centuries, Francis is famous for projecting ordinary humanity. Usually that everyman ethos expresses itself in warmth and approachability, though every now and then we also get a glimpse of grumpiness, as happened on New Year’s Eve when Francis slapped away an overly clingy woman […]

Catholic leaders join New Yorkers in march against hate

Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York and Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio of Brooklyn joined about 25,000 New Yorkers who took to the streets for a Jan. 5 “Solidarity March” in protest of anti-Semitism. “When there’s an attack on you, there’s an attack on all of us,” Cardinal Dolan said in remarks at the rally in […]

President of Asia’s bishops’ confederation calls for end of police brutality in Hong Kong

Asia’s leading cardinal was among the dozens of people to sign an open letter to the Hong Kong government to complain about “police brutality” over the Christmas period in the self-governing Chinese city. Major protests began in the former British colony in June, after the Hong Kong government attempted to push through legislation which would […]

Row over Syro-Malabar Mass resurfaces

The question whether the celebrant should face the congregation (westward) or eastward during Mass, a bone of contention in the Syro-Malabar Church for several decades, is back in focus again. On the agenda of the Church Synod meeting at St Thomas Mount in Kochi, headquarters of the Church, from January 7 are possible changes to […]

BJP president meets Christian pastors on CAA

Bharatiya Janata Party president Jagat Prakash Nadda has tried to get the support of Christian community to the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). The former student of St Xavier’s School in Patna on January 7 met with around 15 pastors of various Christian denominations in the national capital. BJP vice president Dushyant Gautam and Tom […]