Author: Church Citizens' Voice

                                          VARGHESE PAMPLANIL     The article “Is God, he, she, or it?” which was published in CCV has prompted this...

  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yrKiOeXgWbNiorIeyzG1kOsSnU89yUMF/view?usp=sharing   Isaac Gomes reports from Kolkata   On 14th March 2021, ANANDABAZAR PATRIKA ONLINE published a report in Bengali (link given below), on several questions the shell-shocked Laity of Bengal asked Archbishop Thomas D’Souza of the Archdiocese of...

THE NEW INDIAN EXPRESS 14 March 2021   Pinarayi Vijayan would be a useful case-study for political leaders. He was a communist who would have got drowned in any other state; he survived in Kerala because communism is not feared...

Cover image:  Catholic priest Rodney Borneo (n white kurta) being felicitated as he formally joins BJP. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/catholic-priest-leaves-church-formally-joins-bjp/articleshow/81419564.cms MATTERSINDIA.COM 10 March 2021 Fr Francis Sunil Rosario   Since Sunday 7th March morning, the news that shook the faithful of the Archdiocese...

Jesuit Review America March 08, 2021 James Martin, S.J.     Our God is not a “Catholic God!” said Pope Francis, not that he has the last word on “God.” Many Popes have said absurd or irrational things! His views on Jesus...

Cover Photo: Japan’s prime minister YoshihideSuga, announced a minister of loneliness to his cabinet last month, closely following a similar announcement in January 2018 by the United Kingdom (UK). Loneliness is rarely acknowledged, deeply misunderstood, and alongside anxiety and depression, presents...

  THE INDIAN EXPRESS 4th March 2021        Karishma Mehrotra | New Delhi   India’s score decreased from 71 to 67, with 100 being the ranking for the most free country, and its rank fell from 83 to 88...

NDTV 1 March 2021   Yashwant Sinha   A new wave of patriotism is sweeping through the land. We have not seen the likes of it before. This new cult of patriotism does not merely stop at claiming loudly "I...

  Congratulations dear friend Isaac for enhancing and enriching our knowledge by publishing Churmosquagougue.    The name of the monument could be the short form of church—mosque —synagogue. In these times of turmoil and asymmetries, the monument may provide a...

The House of One (Churmosquagogue) monument is being built by Berlin architects Kuehn Malvezzi (Source: kuehnmalvezzi.com) THE INDIAN EXPRESS 27 February 2021 Here’s why the House of One, or, colloquially, Churmosquagogue, is already one of the most significant historical sites...

THE TELEGRAPH CALCUTTA 23 February 2021 The article below on the Editorial page in today's (23-02-2021) Telegraph Calcutta reminds me of the following poem composed by the great Nobel Laureate from Bengal Rabindranath Tagore in 1913.  It represents Tagore's vision of...

                                                       JOSEPH MANI   Mr Joseph Mani churns up our minds again.  He writes...

https://www.article-14.com/post/inside-india-s-war-to-silence-the-free-press NDTV 16 February, 2021 Ramachandra Guha   “Just think of Modi-Shah government not having a single press conference in six-and-a-half years, and assiduously cultivating and promoting a ‘Godi Media’, the Prime Minister has succeeded in reducing journalistic scrutiny of his...

  VARGHESE PAMPLANIL Among organised religions,Christianity claims to be the largest in terms of membership. However, the statistics put out may be misleading in the sense thatall those who have undergone infant baptism is deemed as Christians, whether they practise...

  *Fr Cedric Prakash SJ   ‘Apolitical’ is both a word and a concept; it is reflective of one’s attitude and behaviour towards the realities that grip people anywhere. It essentially means having no interest in or association with politics....

* Fr. Cedric Prakash SJ   Decoding is never child’s play! But when one is entrusted with the task of sifting and sieving the past, present and future, the fact from the fiction, the possibility from the impossibility, the probability...

                                                 Varghese Pamplanil   This is with reference to the comments of George Nedumparabil on my article...

                                8th February 2021 Michael Haynes Pope Francis congratulated UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres Guterres for “all the efforts he has made for peace." Guterres...

                                                Dr James Kottoor   The roaring political controversy raging in Kerala today is: “Toddy-tapperes’ Son”, the phrase...