Author: CCV

  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...

  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...

dr. james kottoor                    What is the difference between advertising and publicity? One captures public attention and support, by hook or crook, through  embellished  and exaggerated half truths in which the unthinking credulous get trapped and burned alive like flies...

THE TELEGRAPH, CALCUTTA 7th February 2018 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee pulled off a political feat on Tuesday by bringing the arch rivals Gorkha Janmukti Morcha and the GNLF on the same platform.  Readers will recall that Gorkha National Liberation...

 Times of India Sanjeev Singh  February 1,2018   (Note: What the headline shouts out could be the daydream of the writer of the article which need not come true at all. Such perditions did not happen in the first 2014...

While efficacy remains to be judged, Budget has started a much-needed conversation around health. Rudroneel Ghosh Times of India 1st February 2018 (Note: Health care, Obamacare, Modicare! What better publicity stunt can you think of to be in the company...

Church Citizens' Voice begins the month of February on an auspicious note.  It has a new writer in Professor C. John Rose, from Kanyakumari. We accord him a hearty welcome.  In this article the Professor has touched upon Palace Intrigues...

Says comments ‘abandon’ survivors Brian Dowling Sunday, January 21, 2018 Boston Herald  & Herald wire services Cover Image: Members of the movement Laicos de Osorno sing while holding up images showing Fernando Karadima, and his protege Juan Barros, bishop of Osorno,...

  Cover Image: Chilean Father Fernando Karadima leaves the Supreme Court building in Santiago, Chile, Nov. 11. Father Karadima went to the court for questioning in a lawsuit brought against the Catholic Church over sexual abuses he is said to...

INDIA TODAY 30 January 2018 Women's role in agriculture cannot be ignored, says the Economic Survey 2018. Photo for representation: Reuters   Much has been said about agrarian distress but focusing on women farmers can be the key to improving...

CHHOTEBHAI The Gospel reading was from Mathew chapter 13, on the sower and the seed. The occasion was the Episcopal Silver Jubilee of Abp Albert D’souza (72) of Agra. It was being celebrated on 28th January at St Peter’s College,...

  Editorial in the Statesman  January 29, 2018   (Note: Any hope of the Marxist-communist ideology resurrecting after the break up and going to smithereens of the Russian Empire? Nope! That seems to be the clear verdict of history so...

Fr. Cedric Prakash SJ*   In this article Fr Cedric Prakash, a vocal Human Rights Activist, gives us all a very powerful message: "The writing on wall in the India of today is very clear: we have Godses and we...

Fr Cedric Prakash SJ* Here is an article by Fr Cedric Prakash SJ, noted Human Rights Activist.  In the light of rampant violation of human rights in many parts of the world, by Governments and in the name of religion,...