A Catholic bishop and five priests from Kerala, southern India, have been arrested on charges of illegal sand mining in the neighboring state of Tamil Nadu.
Tamil Nadu’s Tirunelveli district court has remanded all the six in judicial custody, but Bishop Samuel Mar Irenios Kaattukallil of Pathanamthitta and Father Jose Chamakala were admitted to the Government Medical College Hospital in Tirunelveli after they fell ill.

Consistory to reflect on Church’s mission to communicate God’s love
In a letter to the Cardinals ahead of a late-June Consistory, Pope Leo XIV calls for a deeper reflection on the themes of “Evangelii gaudium,”


