Monthly Archive: February 2017

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World is larger than five, Join Surge of diplomacy for peace

(In the pic: President Erdogan of Turkey). Cup half full or empty? –  World is larger than five, Join Surge of diplomacy for peace – By burak akcapar, in New Indian Express, 2th February 2017 (Note: Comparisons are odious,  but they help us see where we...

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US Church vs politics – The President and the Bishops

By Michael McGough in the Tablet UK, 09 February 2017 (Note: The UK’s national Catholic weely Tablet, is bright, brief and begone, in its comments on the state of thinking among US hierarchy. (“Intelligenti paucca”) Few words are enough to get the...

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Cockfight: Sasikala vs Panneerselvam!

Kuldip Nayar, in the Statesman, Kolkotta,February 9, 2017 (Note: The cock-fight in Chennai now is between Panneerselvam and Sasikala, the latter a bête noire in public eye and the other, a man approved or “an affable man” due to his...

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“Prophet of religious harmony” Albefrt dies

Albert Nampiaparampil no more –  By Matters India on Feb. 7, 2017 (Note: Yes Fr. Albert well deserves to be called “Kerala’s Prophet of Religious Harmony.” This scribe also was a close friend and collaborator with him, just 3 years...

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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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Sasikala politics – Backroom to the front-stage

Editorial in the Hindu, FEBRUARY 07, 2017  (Note: An orchestrated drama is being enacted  to fool the public that Sasikala’s rise to CM’s post is through due process. It is very doubtful that a person who never won an election...

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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...

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Canadian Contrast

Editorial in Indian Express, February 3, 2017 Amid the rise of the far-right, Justin Trudeau’s Canada stands out as a bastion of Western multiculturalism.                  (Note: There is always a silver lining even in a dark overcast sky. We have...

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Trump has inspired a growing opposition

Editorial in US Catholic Reporter –  Editorial  in National Catholic Reporter, USA,   Feb. 3, 2017 People protest against President Donald Trump's immigration policies during a demonstration near the White House in Washington Jan. 25. (CNS/Gregory A. Shemitz) (Note: “I was a stranger...

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Canadian Contrast

Editorial in Indian Exprss, February 3, 2017. Amid the rise of the far-right, Justin Trudeau’s Canada stands out as a bastion of Western multiculturalism. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. (Note: There is always a silver lining even in a dark overcast...

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German Bishops Open Way to Communion for Divorced Catholics

Communion for Divorced Catholics! –  By Sewell Chan, Feb. 1, 2017, in New York Times In the pic: The Cathedral of St. Bartholomew, a Roman Catholic church in Frankfurt. Many German bishops are generally considered to be within the more liberal wing...

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Fr. Theophane lived in Capuchin Ashram Thammanam

He lived in Capuchin Ashram Thammanam – Vatican starts sainthood process for Fr. Theophane Koodalloor – (Published on:  January 28, 2017 by: Matters India Reporter) (Note: The Capuchin Ashram where Fr. Theophane lived, worked, died and buried happens to be walking distance from where this...

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Highlights of Union Budget 2017-18

Source: THE HINDU    FEBRUARY 01, 2017 11:47 IST UPDATED: FEBRUARY 02, 2017 02:08 IST Cover photo: Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley arrives at Parliament to present the Union Budget 2017-18, in New Delhi on Wednesday.   | Photo Credit: V. Sudershan  ...

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Bishops worry over minority support to Church teachings on marriage

                        According to  Saramma Emmanuel reporting on Feb.1st from Bhopal: Catholic Church in India began to seriously ponder over revitalizing Catholic families after separate studies found only a “minority of people support the Catholic Church’s teaching on marriage” in the...