Monthly Archive: July 2018

U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission chiefs say credit default swaps perform a service for the real economy.   La Croix International staff United States July 30, 2018 Here is a report in La Croix International on economic affairs, more specifically...

Mattersindia.com Published on: 11:50 pm, July 30, 2018   Cover image: Fr James Erthayil of Kanjirappally diocese. In yesterday's report captioned Needed: 1000 Courts for Speedy Trial of Rape Cases, it was mentioned that in the Bishop Franco Mulakkal alleged...

  THE TELEGRAPH, CALCUTTA 30 July 2018   Today's the Telegraph Calcutta has an interersting report on  Fast Track Special Courts which need to be set up if India is to tackle numerous and increasing cases of  rape of children...

  Varghese Pamplanil Is Compulsory Auricular Confession an Affront to Human Dignity and a Challenge to the Universal and Inalienable Fundamental Right to Privacy?   Note: This  article of our esteemed columnist is an exercise to update the readers  with...

  Introductory note of Explanation of this publication in Church Citizens’ Voice (CCV) from the CCV editor   Cover image: Bishop Gallela Prasad of Kadapa (Cudappah) Andhra Pradesh.   https://drive.google.com/open?id=19X7KK6dB_F5dJ6FtvjHJWexKBeswBHOX https://drive.google.com/open?id=1EmuHO7U4JUM-S5Dlvc8XQFAMLc8wZfFO https://drive.google.com/open?id=12kb2XMF_3_WSLhJAbmu5JxGYzNLZhPMv   I received the letter of alleged complaints...

mattersindia.com   July 26, 2018    Note: ‘Demythologizing Confession’ was the booklet this scribe wrote when he was editor of the over 125 year old English Catholic Weekly, The New Leader,  from Chennai. That was some 50 years ago. Things...

  Varghese Pamplanil writes a letter  to the editor     Note:    This article is a response to Catholic clerics who are still in the  grip of  the ghosts of the past: heresy hunting, Inquisition et al. Time was when...

  THE TABLET By Christopher White, The Tablet’s National Correspondent July 25, 2018   Cardinal Patrick Cardinal D’Rozario, C.S.C., of Bangladesh, made a pastoral visit, July 21-23, to the borough of Queens, home to the largest Bengali population in the...

# chhotebhai   We are familiar with the Sadhu, usually a saffron robed ascetic or mendicant. Till not so long ago most Sadhus had little or no worldly possessions, living simple and frugal lives. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi may have been...

 Isaac Gomes  reports from Kolkata     https://drive.google.com/open?id=1jhgH0kXQbjv2-xwa7mLe5ZxcFEY7gY33 https://drive.google.com/open?id=1DqHqd8LbgmM_ExaIW94Gjpy1RV0mlrB9 https://drive.google.com/open?id=1SL08j3tyEyoB44-izOAF1LeT3k7nvmzZ   The recent tsunami of episodes involving the Indian Catholic Church namely the Ernakulam Archdiocese multi-crore land scam, abuse of the sacrament of confession by four priests in Kerala Church,...

  Sobhana K. Nair THE HINDU July 25, 2018   Note:   This is an interview with Shashi Tharoor by Sobhana Nair on Hindu Rashtra, secular democracy, Modi’s silence on repeated lychings of Muslims and dalits by cow vigilantes and 2019...

By A.J.PHILIP In INDIAN CURRENTS 09-15 July 2018 Indian Currents in its 09-15 July 2018 issue published, in total contrast to its high standards, an abominable article captioned Villains as Victims – Why call sex, Rape?  Abominable because its editor, Dr....

Cover Image: Sexual abuse and humiliation which nuns and others who serve in Church institutions are subjected to has been spoken about in hushed tones. (Representational image) Flavia Agnes in Asian Age, Jul 20, 2018 The matter is serious and...

*Fr. Cedric Prakash SJ On 17 July renowned social activist and Arya Samaj leader Swami Agnivesh was brutally beaten up and verbally abused in Jharkhand by a violent mob apparently having allegiance with the ruling BJP. Fortunately, they did not...

  Note: All of us  have to learn to “call a spade a spade” That is what our distinguished and frankly speaking friend Pamplanil is doing, what Voltaire has done and what this know-nothing try to do, unconcerned about whether...

  By Valson Thampu 16th July 2018 in New Indian Express Of late, the Kerala Christian community has been serially buffeted by tremors of priestly sexual aberrations. Where did the church fail? Note:  “The spiritual merit of the church is...

 dr. james kottoor (Kochi) This is all about a petition demanding  suspension and removal of Bishop Franco Mulakkal of  Jalandhar by a “178 member group of Indian Christian Women Movement consisting nearly 70 nuns 15 priests and the laity” reported...

  Sequel to the earlier Letter to the Editor   “Beyond Gods and Scriptures”   Varghese Pamplanil Further to my submissions above on the subject, I would like to elaborate on a few aspects.   In  the mostly Christian West,...

  In today's homily in Auxilium parish in Kolkata, the priest said that as Christians we are three-in-one at the same time: A Prophet, A Pilgrim and A Missionary.  He said it is very challenging to be a Christian, for...

  Letter to the Editor on the Book BEYOND GODS & SCRIPTURES   I have read the readers' comments on the the above-titled book written by Mr. Joseph Mani. I have been deliberately avoiding giving my take in the matter....