From The States

Archbishop D’Souza becomes assistant parish priest after retirement

Jesuit Archbishop William D’Souza, who retired recently as the head of Patna archdiocese, on March 1 became an assistant parish priest. Archbishop D’Souza, who on March 5 turns 75, the mandatory retirement age of bishops, is the new assistant pastor of St Stephen’s church, in Danapur Cantonment area, outside Patna, capital of Bihar state.

Vatican to probe allegations against Mysore bishop

Catholic laity groups in India have welcomed the news that the Vatican has initiated a probe into allegations against Bishop Kannikadass Antony William of Mysore. The Vatican has finally set up an enquiry commission to look into all the allegations against Bishop William, says a press note from the Association of Concerned Catholics, a pan-Indian […]

Dalits want the new Archbishop of Pondicherry-Cuddalore to be one of their own

Dalit Catholics in the Archdiocese of Pondicherry-Cuddalore, southern India, and Catholics in the dioceses of Tamil Nadu are calling for the appointment of a Dalit bishop. Dalit Catholics raised the issue of caste discrimination in a protest on 29 December 2020. Last Saturday they organised another protest in Villupuram, Tamil Nadu, calling for the appointment […]

Priest who assaulted bishop suspended

A Catholic priest, who recently assaulted his bishop, has been sus-pended, according to a letter from the victim prelate. In a letter to Father Varghese Palappallil, Bishop Pius Thomas D’Souza of Ajmer cited the second section of Canon law 1370 to inform his priest assaulter that his action has incurred “Latae Sententiae Interdict and suspension” […]

Catholics want Holy Week spared as Indian polls approach

The laity council of the Indian bishops’ conference has urged the country’s election commission not to hold state assembly elections in several states during Holy Week. Elections are due to take place in April in federal-ruled Pondicherry and in Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal states. “Holy Week begins this year on March 28 starting […]

Catholics ask Indian state to scrap fishing project

Catholic leaders are among those opposing a multimillion-dollar overseas deep-sea fish-ing project in Kerala that they say threatens the livelihood of ordinary fisher people in the southern Indian coastal state. Following criticism from opposition leaders and rights groups, the communist-led state government withdrew two memoranda of understanding it signed with a US-based firm that allegedly violated the state’s […]

Farmer organizations condemn exam paper with loaded comments

Farmers organizations have condemned a Chennai’s school’s examination paper that disparages their agitation against new farm laws. An English language examination paper of Dayanand Arya Vidyalaya Boys’ school in Chennai’s Gopalapuram has labeled the protesting farmers as “violent maniacs” acting under “external instigations.” During a written English exam on February 11, the renowned school asked […]

Church in China: 2021 dominated by the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party

July 23, 1921 is the date of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party. The event occured in Shanghai in what was once the French Concession. One hundred years after that date, in 2021, the Catholics of China will hold a symposium “in memory of the centenary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party” and […]

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Pope To Syro-malabar Faithful: Unity Is A Duty

The Goa Bench Of The Bombay High Court Grants Relief For Protestant Pastor, Wife