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Evaluate the leadership of the Indian Church

QUESTION: How do you evaluate the leadership of the Indian Church as you are entering the tenth year of your episcopacy ANSWER: As I enter the tenth year as a bishop, your question ‘how do you evaluate the leadership of the Church in India’ sounds pertinent. My Episcopal Motto is In Fidei Communione. Returning to […]

Losing LOVE and respect for man

QUESTION: Dead bodies are piling up in cremation grounds all over India. We had the Covid-19 vaccine available on hand, but failed to use it for our own people. Are the leaders of the country losing love and respect for man? ANSWER: Mother India has been a shining star in the global horizon for many […]

Covid-19 and thousands of men and women are dying

QUESTION: In four days 20 priests have died of Covid-19 and thousands of men and women are dying. How do you see in it the face of God the Loving Father? ANSWER: I must say that we are getting a real taste of God through these incidents. We are shepherds, and so I am really […]

people are free to choose their own religion

QUESTION: The Supreme Court on April 9 said people are free to choose their own religion, even as it lashed out at a “very, very harmful kind” of “public interest” petition claiming there is mass religious conversion happening “by hook or by crook” across the country. What is your response to Justice Rohinton F. Nariman’s […]

Hindu extremists will repeat in this country which is said to be democratic

QUESTION: As a leader of the minority community are you afraid the incidents like what happened to two Catholic sisters and the postulants in Jhansi in U.P with the Hindu extremists will repeat in this country which is said to be democratic? ANSWER: I am deeply touched and dismayed at the unfortunate and unprecedented happening […]

Islamophobia among the Christian community

QUESTION: For his outreach to Islam, the Pope is not afraid of being called a heretic. You also had a similar experience in your region. How do we reach out to the Muslims? Why does there exist Islamophobia among the Christian community? ANSWER: For us, our path is one of dialogue. Except through dialogue, how […]

Let Us Dream

QUESTION: In the last part of his latest book Let Us Dream: The Path to a Better Future Pope Francis says, “We might wonder and now what must I do? What would be my place in the future and what can I do to make it possible? Two words come to my mind decentre and […]

lot of noise shouting Halleluiah

QUESTION: What is happening to Satprakashan Sanchar Kendra, a Catholic media centre you have in Indore? Are you persecuted? ANSWER: Not really so. What happened was that the centre gave a hall for use to a Pentecostal group that made a lot of noise shouting Halleluiah. That alerted a nearby training centre from which people […]

Indian bishops slam terror attack on tourists in India’s Kashmir

No action taken against police who assaulted Catholic priests in India