THANKS AMBROSE!
A tribute to Fr Ambrose Pinto SJ (KAR) who left this world on 3 January 2018 By Fr. Cedric Prakash sj* Early this morning, when I received a WhatsApp message from my Provincial Fr. Francis Parmar saying that you...
Monthly Archive: January 2018
Endogamy & Muthaloq 2 faces of same coin? Muthalaq now, What about Enforced Endogamy, Next?
By Alex Esthappan Kavumpurath New York (Note: No one wishes to beat a dead horse. Syromalabar faithful all over the world have great sympathy for their supreme spiritual leader in Ernakulam. At the same time they cannot turn a blind...
The message from Gujarat
THE TELEGRAPH, CALCUTTA 04th January 2018 SWAMI AGNIVESH & VALSON THAMPU A very indepth and forboding article on today's politics at the cost of humanity, by Swami Agnivesh and Valson Thampu, in the Telegraph Calcutta. Isaac Gomes, Asso. Editor,...
Christmas in the Midst of Unseen Violence
By Father Dr. Anand Muttugnal Cover Image: Priests and seminarians in detention near Satna. (Source: Express photo) Father Dr. Anand Muttugnal is a great social thinker and promoter of Sarvadharma. He has multifaceted qualifications – Ph.D in Psychology, Bhopal, M.P.; Master of Philosophy,...
Listen to CCV readers’ Nine Letters to read and reflect!
dr.james kottoor “Recedant vetera, nova sint omnia”(Let bygones be bygones, may all things be new.” This is what an old Latin proverb and its English version exhorts. The year 2017 is gone and 2018 is already in and...
PURSUING PEACE
Fr Cedric Prakash sj* 1 January 2018 A new year has just dawned! To the hoots of sirens and the blasts of trumpets, to firework displays and the singing of ‘Auld Lang Syne’ the world bade goodbye to 2017...
Cardinal Reinard Marx’s plan for laypeople to lead parishes
LA CROIX INTERNATIONAL Christa Pongratz-Lippitt December 29, 2017 Cover image: Cardinal Reinhard Marx / Wolfgang Roucka / Wikipedia / CC BY-SA 3.0 Parish clustering is no answer to priest shortage, says German Cardinal Reinard Marx, a top aide and adviser to Pope Francis. He...
Readers’ reaction to “What’s on Your mind? Asks face book Cover story on Cardinal Alancherry land deal loss”
Jose kallidikil, Chicago. 31/12/2017 at 3:52 pm (Edit) I am not sure if Mar. Alencherry is in way responsible for the huge monetary and reputational loss that the Ernakulam- Angamali Archdiocese suffered in the contraversial land deal. But from what...
