The Supreme Court on Mar 31 issued notice to the Karnataka police and others on a plea by Bengaluru’s St Peter’s Pontifical Seminary against Karnataka High Court’s order quashing a criminal case against five accused in the sensational murder of Fr K.J. Thomas in 2013. Fr Thomas was the rector of St Peter’s Pontifical Institute in Malleswaram. A bench of Justices S.A. Bobde and L. Nageswara Rao also sought response from the accused, who were Kannada Christian activists, and named in the supplementary charge sheet filed more than two years after the incident. It was alleged that the father was killed on April 1, 2013 following a rivalry between him and Kannada Christian activists, who wanted primacy for Kannada Christians in the Catholic Churches in Karnataka.
Spanish bishops speak out after leaks of their meeting with Leo XIV
The executive committee of the Spanish Bishops’ Conference, (CEE, by its Spanish acronym) meeting in Madrid this week, issued an official statement regarding the leaks
