Monthly Archive: May 2018
# chhotebhai 31 May 2018 Chhotebhai speaks at the National Seminar on “Christian Leadership for a Culture of Peace in the Multi-Religious Context of India”. It was held from 13th to 15th April 2018 at Navjivan Renewal Centre (NRC),...
dr.james kottoor (From Chicago) ”A tempest in a tea cup!” That was the instant reaction of some over Delhi Archbishop Anil Couto’s call for prayer for the dawn of a truly secular government in 2019. Biased minds judge according...
Varghese Pamplanil The Sojourn The sojourn of non-existence: nay existence may end now. What’s reality after one is no more,elusive great unknown. Nothing is left behind, even a trace, or a shadow of being here. What...
Repose Varghese Pamplanil There is no wound that won’t heal, there is no sorrow time won’t erase, there is no hurt that won’t mend. Nothing lasts for ever, everything passes. Transient creatures, we on planet earth, that...
dr. james kottoor (Chicago) Will Savita, the Indian dentist from Karnataka get due credit or mention in the new liberalized abortion law to be framed soon in Ireland? Speaking to ‘Irish Times’ her...
Letter to the Editor From: Isaac Gomes, Kolkata. Sir, This has reference to the report captioned CHALLENGE TO BE PROPHETIC IN INDIA by Fr Cedric Prakash, published on 28th May 2018 in your esteemed newsletter. The report on the Pastoral...
*Fr. Cedric Prakash SJ 27th May 2018 There has been so much happening in India in the recent past and particularly, this past week. The country today sits on a tinderbox; waiting to explode at any moment; no one...
Jesus said:‘Seek and you shall find’. Maharshi Dayanand instead said; “doubt, debate and, if need be, dissent”. Simultaneously we are warned: “We all live in hope and die in despair.” Which one do we heed and act upon? Left...
Resurrection Varghese Pamplanil From the burnt and charred earth emerges, new shoots of blue bells, ferns and grass, hibernating trees stir from prolonged sleep, a few buds peep demure among the leaves. It is the season of...
Today, I had a rare visit of paradise on earth, that filled my heart and being, with joy and bliss. Moved I among trees and shrubs of rainbow hues, dazzled and awe struck, all my nerves tinkled, riot of colours...
dr. james kottoor (from Chicago) What is domino effect? It is some shocking or surprise happening, which induces or facilitates similar good or bad things to happen. The Latin phrase for it is: “Post hoc, propter hoc.” (This...
INDIA TODAY Ganesh Kumar Radha Udayakumar 23 May 2018 20:19 IST Cover image: Top Opposition leaders, including Rahul (4-R) and Sonia Gandhi (2-L), Mayawati (3-L), Sitaram Yechury (3-R) and Tejashwi Yadav (R) attended HD Kumaraswamy's swearing-in ceremony in...
Varghese Pamplanil All across the world, rampant and hideous sex abuses especially of children by the Catholic clergy are coming into the open – US, UK, Belgium,Germany, Ireland, Switzerland, Australia and more. The 21 volume report of...
*Fr Cedric Prakash sj 20th May 2018 The month of May has always been a special month dedicated to Mary, the mother of Jesus, the mother of God. As children we looked forward to the ‘May Devotions’; during our...
*Fr. Cedric Prakash SJ 19 May 2018 The ‘natak’ in Karnataka, since the results of the recently-held elections to the State Assembly were announced on 15 May, was a drama which played out for almost a week and...
By Junno Arocho Esteves, Catholic News Service, Courtesy: NCR May 18, 2018 Vatican City — Every bishop in Chile offered his resignation to Pope Francis after a three-day meeting at the Vatican to discuss the clerical sexual abuse scandal. Note:...
Cover image: Karnataka Governor Vajubhai Vala inviting the BJP to form government day before yesterday and allowing Yeddyurappa to take oath yesterday (courtesy The Indian Express) Readers of CCV can read below, a very incisive editorial in the Telegraph...
PRESS RELEASE KANPUR 16TH MAY: The Kanpur Nagrik Manch (KNM) has expressed shock and dismay at the collapse of an under construction flyover near Varanasi Cantt station yesterday, in which several people lost their lives or were seriously...
Varghese Pamplanil gives his feedback on: Corruption is a social sin – Article by Amado Picardal, Manila, Philippines. The article above set me thinking. According to Webster’s Encyclopaedic Unabridged Dictionary, the word ‘corrupt’ means: guilty of dishonest...
Given below is a report from the ‘Horse's Mouth’ (from Inside the Vatican) and therefore most reliable. This is CCV comment on it. The report is about the concluding part of the clerical sex abuse going on for too long...