Monthly Archive: August 2018

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REDEFINING OUR FREEDOM

Cover Photo:  Independence Day programme by students of Auxilium Parish Primary School, Kolkata.    * Fr Cedric Prakash SJ 18 August 2018   Social media was clogged with messages, images and videos on 15 August, the day on which India...

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PRIESTS, PREACHERS AND POLLUTION

  Cover image: Father Sony Varghese (Abraham Varghese) and Father Jaise K George, accused of raping and blackmailing a woman for several years, surrendered before a local court today. (Courtesy:  NDTV News Thiruvananthapuram 13th August 2018)   This is a...

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SHRINKING ST STEPHEN’S

  # chhotebhai (A response to the article “The Shrinking of St Stephen’s” Hindustan Times 12th August 2018)     Prof Ramachandra Guha is a historian and Gandhian of great standing, and I have often written to him expressing my...

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THE  CONFESSION  CONUNDRUM – Joseph Mani

Forgive others first to be forgiven! Note:  The substance of this article is that we offend our neighbor, never God who is immutable, unchangaabe and bliss eternal. That is why Jesus told us: When you have done this to my...

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PROGRESSION OF PROCESSIONS

  Here is another masterpiece by Chhotebhai, a treatise on the increasing hullabaloo we are witnessing across India, all in the name of Religiosity and less Spirituality. The organisers/ processionists do not care for any civic norms by making the local...

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Reactions from Readers!

Note:  We are in receipt of too many reactions to our recent posts in the CCV. As time and pace permit we shall publish them subject wise or part by part. First there is heated discussion on Auricular confession on...

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Government wants last word on judges

THE FREE PRESS JOURNAL By Olav Albuquerque  Aug 10, 2018 07:26 am The dilly-dallying of the Government of India over the elevation of Justice K.K. Joseph to Supreme Court, is an alarming sign.  It shows that it is trying its...

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THE CONFESSION CONUNDRUM

  * JOSEPH MANI   In the wake of the confession-related scandal in Kerala, the NCW chairperson has suggested that Confession should be banned. The Churches have vehemently opposed the suggestion, naturally; the BJP government, through its Minister Alfons Kannanthanam,...

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Bowing to Dravidian Leader!

The colossus of Dravidian Politics has gone but Dravidian politics will stay on and prosper.  We, the CCV,  see that as the lasting  tribute to Karunanithi. May that "Nithi"  give leadership to cultural groups in  every state in India, to...

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Letter to the Editor – Myths, beliefs and history

  Varghese Pamplanil writes:   Dear Sir, Gautam Adhikari’s edit  page in Times of India of 4th instant, “myths, beliefs and history” is topical and  relevant to the present situation in India.   In a milieu,  where vast number of...