Category: Christian World
Former Irish president says she wouldn’t ask 300 celibate men for expertise on the family First published:Sat, Oct 3, 2015, Former president Mary McAleese has ridiculed the concept of 300 elderly celibates coming together to discuss family questions. Addressing a meeting...
Prelates write to pope expressing Concern on liberal declarations emerging at gathering By Paddy Agnew in Irish TimesSouth African cardinal Wilfred Napier, said a paper calling for greater inclusivity towards homosexuals had been published at last year’s synod without prior...
(In the pic: Father Jacques Mourad, who recently escaped from the Islamic State. Credit: Terre Sainte Mag.Homs) Syria, Oct 15, 2015 / 06:03 am (CNA/EWTN News).- A Syrian priest who was captured by Islamic State militants in May thought he...
Activists warn of anti-Christian violence in Jharkhand state. Bhopal(UCAN): A Christian minister was shot dead in eastern India, an act a church leader said points to a trend of terrorizing Christians in the tribal-dominated Jharkhand state. Chamu Hasda Purty, 54, of...
© Provided by AFP Pope Francis has told the glossy French magazine Paris Match that the world economic system as it stands was "unsustainable" Pope Francis on Thursday called on the world to reject the "idolatry of money", claiming that greed...
(Photo: Indians took part in a vigil in memory of the Muslim man who was killed by a mob earlier this month. Credit: Altaf Qadri/Associated Press) (Note: This editorial in New York Times is proof that prominent papers around...
Lunatic Fringe Strangling India? Published: 13th Oct,13/15 in Indian Express (Note: Indeed a lunatic fringe is strangling India, its democratic credentials, its good name as the Light of the East for its age old spiritual and moral values. These lunatic...
Jakarta (Story By: Mathias Hariyadi – Matters India): A Muslim woman in Indonesia has expressed happiness after her son was ordained a Catholic priest. “I’m really happy to see my son ordained a Catholic priest,” said Sites Asiyah immediately after the ordination...
dr.james kottoor (Edited) Theoretically the belief is that the invisible Holy Spirit through his invisible workings guides the Catholic Church on the right path. When it is evidently on the wrong path the fault is attributed to the machinations...
(Note: Theoretically the belief is that the invisible Holy Spirit through his invisible workings guides the Catholic Church on the right path. When it is evidently on the wrong path the fault is attributed to the machinations of mundane men...
Conservative Bishops seem to be panicking, fearful that the more progressive bishops are getting the upper hand of the Synod. The first week of the Synod was to be dedicated to part one: Listening to Families. Days Four, Five, and Six...
Developing synodality and hierarchical collegiality are central to Pope Francis Robert Mickens | Oct. 12, 2015 , in NCR (Note: Rome Synod is just warming up only. Appeals and protests are what we call fireworks or signs of waking up....
Cardinal Reinhard Marx of Munich and Freising (L) speaks at a press conference held by German bishops at the Teutonic College, Oct. 5, 2015. Credit: Bohumil Petrik/CNA. (Note: The bark of Peter with Francis at the helm at present is...
In the context of the raging controversy over the ordination of women to the priest‐hood in the Catholic Church, it may be germane to understand their position in society as a whole. It is a travesty of natural justice to...
(Note: Compare this editorial with that of Hindu, in CCV, both are agreed in susbstance What do you readers think? jk, editor) Prime Minister Narendra Modi has taken the cue from President Pranab Mukherjee while deploring the recent ugly developments....
What's wrong with this picture? Where are the Families? At last year's Synod, CCRI held a meeting in Rome to welcome the 2014 Extraordinary Synod on the Family and make our wants known to the Synod Fathers. Our international...
dr. james kottoor What is it that strikes or bothers you when you think of the Family Synod going on in Rome? With not a single family having any voting right, are you family people part of that Synod? Or...
Agnes of God By Julio Ribeiro, in The Times of India (Mumbai), Oct.11/15 (The writer is a former police commissioner of Mumbai) I had not heard of the play ` Agnes of God' till the controversy erupted. In the...
Bhubaneswar (Santhosh Digal – Matters India): Capuchin priests have started a computer coaching center for Hindus and Christians at village in the Kandhamal district of Odisha state in eastern India. “Our aim is to impart computer skills to youth belonging...
Vatican City, Oct 10, 2015 / 02:01 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- In his homily on Friday Pope Francis focused on the importance of knowing how to discern whether something comes from God or the devil, who seduces and leads us to...