Category: Christian World

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Gospel of Nonviolence

By Ken Butigan  in the February 2017 issue of U.S. Catholic                          (Note: Virtue stands in the middle (Virtus stat in medio)  avoiding both the extremes, especially physical violence and the age-old stupid just war theory.  Where is place for it when more...

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Islam predicted to overtake Christianity by 2070

  9News.com.au Adam Duggan1 hour ago – 02 March 2017     (Note: Alarm bells especially for European countries like France, where the demography has been witnessing a metamorphic change in terms of increase in muslim population,  resulting in serious law...

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Bishop donated body to science!

Paglia praises generosity of bishop who donated body to science after death – Domenico Agasso Jr.Fabrizio Assandri, in Vatican Insider, 25-01-2017 The bishop in question is the bishop emeritus of Girona, Camprodon i Rovira. The new president of the Pontifical Academy for Life...

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A Brave New Self-help World

Happymon Jacob, in the Hindu,  FEBRUARY 21, 2017   UPDATED: FEBRUARY 21, 2017 01:03 IST                       (Note: Francis Pappa used to advise, nay exhort youngsters, ever since the World Youth meet in Brazil, to go and mess-up things where institutions...

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Bishops to become disruptors? San Diego Bishop challenges

In powerful speech, San Diego bishop challenges organizers to disrupt, rebuild – By Brian Roewe, in NCR,  Feb. 19, 2017 A line from San Diego Bishop Robert McElroy’s speech — “We must all become disruptors” – is captured by artist Sonia Sawhney on a...

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Young India getting Lost? Deviance of the juvenile

Anupriyo Mallick, in the Statesman, Kolkata,February 15, 2017 | 04:03 AM (Note:  The strength of a nation is its young, educated, disciplined and hardworking youth. Europe is aging. That is its weakness: shortage of young productive hands. Fortunately India is...

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VK Sasikala Convicted of Corruption, Jail For 4 Years: 10 Facts

Courtesy : NDTV Tamil Nadu | Edited by Shuchi Shukla | Updated: February 14, 2017 12:12 IST (Note :  Remember Willam Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice? The famous quote of SHYLOCK: "A Daniel come to judgment! yea, a Daniel! O wise young judge, how I...

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Pope -Trump meeting “Expected” Next May

Christopher Lamb in Vatican Insider, on February 2017   Encounter between the two leaders highly likely when US President travels to Italy for G7 summit           (Note:    Who are the two persons today hogging the limelight all over...

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Stokes papal tensions by meeting Rome nationalist

(In the pic: US cardinal Raymond Burke) Stephanie Kirchgaessner, in the Guaridan UK Sunday Monday 6 February 2017 Pope Francis’s harshest critics are aligning themselves with Trump and his acolytes around the world, including Matteo Salvini (Cardinal Burke, the unofficial...