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He Did Not Tell To Lead But Feed My Sheep

Paul Achandy CMI Do you think the Syro-Malabar Church will continue in the same missionary thrust and the fervour of faith and the missionary activity as it is now? I think so. Mission is not man made project. It is God’s work and His project. Like any project, in mission also, there will be a […]

Repeatable Tragedy of Don Quixote

Paul Thelakat 1. The Possession The Ingenious Nobleman of named Alonso Quixano who reads so many chivalric romances loses his sanity and decides to become a knight-errant, reviving chivalry and serving his country, under the name Don Quixote de la Mancha. A simple farmer, Sancho Panza follows his squire, who often employs a unique, earthy […]

To The Peripheries of Latin America and Africa

Paul Achandy CMI You are now in charge of the CMI congregation as its Superior General; what is the direction you would want to give to the congregation? In the last General Synaxis, the CMI congregation decided on its mandate for the next six years, with a thrust on CMI charism and the prophetic call […]

Youth synod of old men

Fr Myron Pereira S.J. The Synod on youth is being planned and discussed by senile old men. Amusing, but also tragic. It is sometimes said that the Catholic Church today faces three crises, all of its own making. The first is the crisis of a celibate clergy, which has exploded into the crisis of paedophile […]

Clerical Cronyism and Secrecy Shielded McCarrick and Others

Peter Daly, Priest of Washington Archdiocese and a lawyer Two months into the sex abuse scandal that forced Theodore McCarrick to renounce his cardinal’s red hat and withdraw to a Capuchin friary in Kansas, Catholics are still asking, “How did this happen?” How does someone like McCarrick advance to the pinnacle of Catholic power and […]

Church Suffers More from Internal Problems

Abp Leo Cornelio Bhopal How do you look at the recent church scandals? It is said scandals are bound to happen in the Church. But woe to those who create them! We need to look at it objectively. There are people who call out scandals, then take advantage of it and publicize and make a […]

We Should Acknowledge the Mistakes

Bp Sebastian Adayanthrath Ernakulam-Angamaly How can we Christians understand scandals in the Church? This is a very interesting and poignant question since it calls for a wide answer. I was in Milan in 2014 and had the wonderful opportunity of meeting with a Cardinal who has been the secretary of Pope John XIII. He was […]

The Faithful Are Scandalised and Their Faith Shaken

Abp Kuriakose Bharanikulangara Faridabad-Delhi My apology in public was addressed to my faithful gathered at the annual Bible Convention, which is an event where faithful of Catholic and non-Catholic churches attended. Since the last Bible Convention in October 2017, a series of scandals like the “land deal affair,” rally of the priests on the street, […]

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

Goans oppose tourism project near 16th century basilica