Monthly Archive: February 2018
(Note: Articles of Shri Varghese Pamplany are special for me. He always unfolds history at the background of ‘what actually happened’. This short piece of observation is enough to show us what Jesus was and how away we are from Him...
Kottayam diocese is the home of Endogamy Kerala: Rome refuses to soften stand on endogamy DECCAN CHRONICLE. | ABHISH K BOSE, Published, Feb 16, 2018, Knanaya Church can’t excommunicate for marrying outside the community! (Note: This news report was published in the Deccan Chronicle of Feb.16,...
Devendra Saksena in The Statesman February 25, 2018 (Note: It is important to know the world we live in. Are we masters of this world or its victims? The medium is the message "is a phrase coined by Marshall McLuhan meaning that...
Varghese Pamplanil (Note: So, Is the big question whether Man created God or God created man? It is like asking which is first: Egg or chilken? The great spiritual Guru Sankaracharya used to be pestered by his disciples asking: “Tell us...
– Fr. Cedric Prakash SJ* 23 February 2018 A few days ago a twenty-seven year old poor Adivasi youth was lynched by a mob in the Palakkad District of Kerala for apparently robbing some Rs 200/- worth of foodstuffs;...
Two deadly daemons pestering the Catholic church, now under the scorching heat of the desert called LENT, it seems to us, are: ‘Sex-craze and Money-craze’. Francis was daring enough to confront them head on from the very outset. To...
He entered office on a wave of energy but, as discontent grows over his attitude to abuse scandals, Francis faces opposition on all sides. Pope Francis is greeted by schoolchildren during an audience at the Vatican. Photograph: AP (Note:Two deadly daemons...
dr. james kottoor (Note: In the picture, Archbishop Charles Scicluna of Malta. This story is published in detail to help all of us reflect on many things: 1) All of us can make mistakes including Popes considered infallible; 2) Even the...
INDIA TODAY Virendrasingh Ghunawat Mumbai 19 February 2018 Officials at Punjab National Bank's (PNB) Brady House branch in South Mumbai may have made close to Rs 823 crore after receiving kickbacks for issuing fraudulent LoUs (letters of undertaking) to...
Vatican City, Feb 18, 2018 / 09:10 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Lent is a time to face our temptations and be converted by the Gospel, Pope Francis said in his Angelus address on the first Sunday of Lent. His reflections were...
New Delhi (Feb.17): Tamil Nadu state in southern India recorded the highest incidents of anti-Christian violence during 2017, according to a study by the Evangelical Fellowship of India (EFI). The national alliance of evangelical Christians on February 16 released its annual...
Isaac Gomes Asso. Editor Church Citizens' Voice As reported in Business Today (1st February 2018), the Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on 1st February unveiled a new National Health Protection Scheme (NHPS) under which health coverage of up to Rs 5 lakh...
The Telegraph, Kolkata 13th February 2018 Editorial Today's editorial in the Telegraph Calcutta pinpoints to the fact that it is a sign of sorry times that an individual needs to use the RTI Act to ask whether there is...
LA CROIX INTERNATIONAL Robert Mickens, Rome Vatican City February 9, 2018 The biggest error Catholic leaders have made regarding the church’s response to priests abusing children has been the exclusion of women leading the policy-making process. Events in the...
Varghese Pamplanil Let the Excellencies, Lords, Beatitudes and Graces have their fun in the salubrious climate of Bangalore Look at the Catholic scenario in India, a Latin Catholic Church, a Syro- Malabar (SM) Catholic Church and a Malankara Church;...
dr. james kottoor Church Citizen’s Voice (CCV) is an all-English portal to unite people of Goodwill around the world. It is inspired by the radiant image of a beaming Jesus triumphant over his cross. That is life, crushing...
(Cul-de-sac means: blind alley, dead end, route or course leading nowhere) By Varghese Pamplanil This much researched article makes us conscious of the many trespasses Christianity is guilty of. In the west, this religion has lost its soul and in...
La Croix International February 6, 2018 The pope had strongly stated when on a recent visit to Chile that no victims had come forward to denounce the cover-up Cover image: Chilean Father Fernando Karadima leaves after attending a...
LA CROIX INTERNATIONAL ucanews.com reporter Hong Kong China February 6, 2018 In this file photo, Pope Francis is flanked, by Bishop Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, chancellor of the Pontifical Academies of Sciences and Social Sciences. (Credit: Gregorio Borgia/AP.) Chinese...
PRESS RELEASE chhotebhai KANPUR (6TH February): Unity in diversity is the cliché often used to describe the multi-cultural, multi-religious and multi-ethnic community that is India. The flavour of the season is unity in adversity, because if they don’t swim together...