Category: Christian World
By Elise Harris. Vatican City, Oct 10, 2015 / 12:48 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Mercy has emerged as a major theme in the synod of bishops, as discussion has moved forward with many participants emphasizing that while mercy is greatly needed, it must...
How did it happen that the Catholic tradition came to find that sexual desire is sinful ? How can the human species as well as other creatures survive and sustain on earth without the fusion of the male and female...
Tina Beattie after addressing WOW conference (NCR photo/Thomas C. Fox) Thomas C. Fox , in NCR, Sep. 19, 2015 (Note: Already some ten knowledgeable persons from around India and a broad have already written supporting our recent article that women...
The National Dialogue Quartet in Tunisia has won this year's Nobel Peace Prize. (Photo: AFP) Oslo: The Nobel Peace Prize jury says The National Dialogue Quartet in Tunisia has won this year's Nobel Peace Prize.The jury cited the group Friday...
Photo: Pope Francis meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the occasion of a private audience at the Vatican, on June 10, 2015 (AFP) Pope Francis met privately with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Vatican on Wednesday, using the...
Vatican City (Matters India)– African cardinals and bishops taking part in a global Church summit on the family at the Vatican have complained it is Euro-centric, with not enough attention paid to issues that concern their parishes. Archbishop Charles Palmer-Buckle...
Chicago, Ill., Oct 8, 2015 / 04:36 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- This morning the Shrine of Christ the King Sovereign Priest in Chicago launched an online restoration fund following Wednesday's fire at the church, which collapsed much of its roof. Firefighters...
Where the boys are (Reactions from all over the world is mounting and show the general disgust at the way the much proclaimed Synod is functioning. It has turned out to be a club of mostly 65+ men discussing...
As we watch the Synod, amid much controversy of the Church's stance on the divorced and remarried receiving the Eucharist, the attitude toward homosexuality, and whether to make room for the advancement of the role of women in the Church,...
New York (Matters India): Pope Francis has topped the list of the 100 most powerful people in global finance, prepared by a top American lifestyle magazine. American President Barack Obama came second in the list that Worth Group magazine published on...
The Catholic Bishops Conference President, Cardinal Baselius Cleemis started it all by writing to the Home minister to ban the controversial play Agnes of God and asking all to support his cause. Sri Kurian Joseph from Delhi responds with the...
Zacharias Nedunkanal, asso. Editor, CCV. This is my response to dr. kottoor’s article on Objections to Women’s Ordination in CCV. The real problem facing the church, ever since the time of St. Paul, is the male domination. Though the basic...
james kottor, Editor, Church Citizens' Voice This is an editorial note on NCR article on whether the Women’s ordination issue is shut or open. The moot question here is: What is the core of women’s ordination issue? Is it theological, philosophical,...
By NCR Editorial Staff, Oct. 4, 2015 (Note: Please see an editorial note on this piece given separately in the CCV. jk) Catholics today are faced with a conundrum and a question. Pope Francis advocates for a church with open...
People march in Causeway Bay district during the Gay Pride Parade in Hong Kong on Nov. 8, 2014. Nearly two thousand people, some wrapped in rainbow-colored flags took to the streets in Hong Kong's Gay Pride Parade (Photo by Xaume...
Why Family is so very Important? dr. james kottoor What is more important: Church or Family? Family is the Domestic or domesticated church, anterior to the explosion of undomesticated animals in the wilds (or Homo homini lupus like churches)...
Ucanews.com reporters, Beijing and Hong Kong, September 28, 2015 Competing with Pope Francis was never going to be easy. So China's state media gave their leader a helping hand over the past week, all but ignoring the pope as President...
Joshua J. McElwee Dennis Coday Oct. 2, 2015. in NCR (Note: The two year 2014-2015 survey, consultation and study of Catholic families world wide is to conclude with the assembly of delegates from Oct.4-25 in Rome. The question is how...
By Nicole Winfield and Pietro Decristofaro | AP October 3, in Washington Post Monsignor Krzysztof Charamsa, left, and his partner Eduard, surname not given, leave a restaurant after a news conference in downtown Rome, Saturday Oct. 3, 2015. The Vatican on Saturday...
State of the Union (Note: Diplomacy, it is said, consists in keep firing even when you are out of all ammunition. Democracy is said to be the talking shop and gift of the gab is said to be the sine-qua-non...