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Right Saint for Our Times

Bp Sebastian Adayanthrath Rome, the eternal city is getting ready to canonize another saint from India along with four others, one among them is a Cardinal who came from Anglican faith and became a strong supporter of Catholic faith, Cardinal Newman. Blessed Mariam Thresia lived a century ago but in a time when women where […]

My Journey Back to a Broken Church

SONJA LIVINGSTON It’s not an easy time to be Catholic. In fact, I hadn’t regularly attended Mass since the 1990s, but like many lapsed Catholics, I still kept tabs, feeling gutted with every new scandal and disclosure of abuse. Things began to look up with the arrival of Pope Francis in 2013. Even so-called cultural […]

I am Somehow the Icon of the Crucified One

Bp Sebastian Adayantharath Mandya When you look back, how do you see seventeen years of your Episcopal life? You had interviewed me seventeen years ago. Through it you had then brought out all my opinions and views about the Episcopal ministry. My motto then was to be broken and to be shared. I had some […]

Amazon synod organizers defend focus on disputed issues, cite region’s needs

The fundamental basis for the discussions at next month’s Vatican meeting of bishops from the Amazon region will be the unique needs of the millions of people who live in or near the world’s largest rainforest, say organizers and consultants for the three-week gathering. Although controversial pastoral issues such as married priests and ministry for […]

“We live today in DARK TIMES”

Fr. Cedric Prakash S.J., Human Rights activist / writer, Ahmedabad Recently you wrote an article on the ‘new emergency’-in it you also referred to Jesuit Fr Stan Swamy of Jharkhand. What is happening to him, Father? What really happened in Bhima Koregaon? Bhima Koregaon is a village with historical significance in the Pune district of […]

A Healthy Earth & Environment: The Common Mission of Science & Humanity

Job Kozhamthadam, SJ Steven Weinberg, physicist and Nobel laureate, concludes The First Three Minutes, widely acclaimed a classic in scientific cosmology: “The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.” But for many other scholars the universe is not a pointless, though complex, machine; it is the masterpiece of the creator –mind-bogglingly […]

Russians Return to Religion, But Not to Church

Over the past two decades, since the collapse of the Soviet Union, there has been an upsurge in affiliation with Orthodox Christianity in Russia. Between 1991 and 2008, the share of Russian adults identifying as Orthodox Christian rose from 31% to 72%, according to a new Pew Research Centre analysis of three waves of data […]

Healing of Historical Wounds

Abp Thomas Menamparampil We need not be over-self-critical. We human beings have been unkind to each other all through human history. We have hurt each other as ethnic groups, nations, Churches, cultural groups and civilizations. Think of Ayodhya, think of Kosovo. It is part of evangelical work to heal the memories of these historic wounds, […]

Eviction-facing Indian Catholics to fight Muslim charity’s claims

Goans oppose tourism project near 16th century basilica