Monthly Archive: May 2018
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1x_7jVrOTmjWycWPd2M-vMCe3s9CfZsEi Isaac Gomes reports from Kolkata Cover image: Chief Guest Mr John Rafi and other distinguished guests at the Sit & Draw and Tattoo-making Competitition on World Communications Day at St Xavier's Primary School, Kolkata. Sunday 13th May was indeed...
THE HINDU NEW DELHI, MAY 13, 2018 Devesh K. Pandey Note: It is election time, state level, Karnataka results in the process of counting and considered to be the semifinal to the National elections in 2019. It is at these...
*Fr. Cedric Prakash SJ 13th May 2018 Days come and go; and sometimes, they ‘fly’ so fast! Some days are certainly ‘extra special’. Today Sunday 13 May 2018 has been one of those days. As one sits back and...
It is 4.30 a.m.and I have woken up suddenly from a disturbed sleep in a humid room after a hot night, on hearing some howling similar to the one heard sporadically inhabited Arabian desert calling followers of a faith, that evolved...
*Fr. Cedric Prakash SJ Here is a wonderful article on World Communication Day which is observed all over the world in the Catholic Church on the Sunday before Pentecost Sunday. This year it falls tomorrow i.e. 13th of May....
The story of the SMC faithfuls’ fight for justice and status quo in Ahmedabad is continuing with new strategies – technical and legal. The mass memorandum of Ahmedabad SM Catholics has gone to the Holy See. Since the pages of...
LA CROIX INTERNATIONAL Father Amado Picardal Manila – Philippines May 11, 2018 Philippine government workers join the observance of International Anti-Corruption Day in Manila in 2012. (Photo by Jimmy Domingo/ucanews.com) Corruption has been likened to a cancer that...
Note: What is the biggest wonder in creation or evolution? There are many who belive in a creator “God” or in only “Evolution” and so this question is addressed equally to all humans. But all believe in cause and effect ...
# chhotebhai About a dozen hapless children have been killed in the recent past by feral dogs in Sitapur district, adjoining Lucknow in U.P. Not so long ago elderly women in Kerala were also killed in like manner. ...
Cover photo: Karnataka Assembly election 2018: Sanjiv Kumar, Chief Electoral Officer for Karnataka, informed that the state EC has recovered 9,746 Electors Photo Identity Card (EPIC) from an apartment in Bengaluru's Jalahalli area. Photo: @ANI -*Fr. Cedric Prakash SJ Fr...
The writer of the article given below, Valson Thampu is a solid thinker and writer in national dailies and former principal of St Stephen’s College, New Delhi. He used to be occasional columnist of Indian Currents, Delhi when I was...
Cover Image: Former prime minister Manmohan Singh addresses a press conference in Rajkot on Thursday. Photo Bengaluru: Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday accused the Modi Government of punishing the common man by not passing on the benefits of...
The CCV article on the rising number of Syro-Malabar (SM) saints already cobbled up and in the assembly line, made me to look for the number of saints in Roman Catholic Church. I was virtually knocked out of my senses...
Scientific temper or Irrationality based on crackpot mythology? “Assault on or vilification of Rationality” and “Glorification or facelift of Irrationality” is the central theme of Sanjay Rajoura’s article in the Hindu. Please read it below. The...
The age of darkness is upon us! Sir, This is a response to the article with the captioned title of T. J. S. George in CCV dated 30th April. When we encounter ‘Darkness at Noon’ on a...
PIYUSH SRIVASTAVA The Telegraph, Calcutta 5th May 2018 Cover Image: UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath eats at a Dalit home in Pratapgarh District in Uttar Pradesh on 23 April 2018 (PTI) The report in today's Telegraph Calcutta is self-explanatory,...
Raping Mother India Sir, CCV has done a yeoman service by publishing the above-captioined incisive article of Cedric Prakash SJ. Let me offer my humble appreciation to the author. The article should be read by each and every...
Thrice Happy Birthday! This is in continuation of the correspondence in CCV about publishing Happy birthday wishes by the editor to Mar Alencherry caught in troubled waters! For me he is a friend who used to call me back after...
Note: I also happened to see the SM Family Survey screwing into the delicacies of family life. A young lady boldly replied the priest concerned to keep away a little giving some freedom to wedded laity. Adding more shame, the...
Reuters in Rome Wed 2 May 2018 Whistleblowers have private Vatican meeting with pontiff Survivors want deeds to match words to tackle abuse ‘epidemic’ Cover image: Bishop Juan Barros attends his first Mass at the Cathedral of...