Monthly Archive: September 2018

Cover Image: Bishop Franco Mulakkal. Express photo. # chhotebhai Blitz, the weekly brought out by R.K. Karanjia, had three Fs on its masthead – Free, Frank, Fearless. The blitzkrieg that has hit the Catholic Church in India over the last...

Look ahead, not back to become a salt pillar! Third Millennial Catholic Reformation From ccri-advisors Report of ST meeting Sept. 20, 2018 – John A. Dick, Ph.D., S.T.D.  Note: This is from the latest circular Rene Reid of the Catholic Church Reform International...

Isaac Gomes writes  from Kolkata: In connection with the article Where are pastors with smell of sheep? Priests, Power & Profits, the following initiative will help arrest financial misdeeds by the clergy: A campaign to reform laws governing church property...

  Note: “All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down,”(Nietzsche). That is what I thought, when, my great Archbishop Louis Mathias of holy memory told me...

NDTV Kerala | Reported by Sneha Mary Koshy Edited by Shylaja Varma |   22 September, 2018     CCV Readers must be very well-conversant with Chhotebhai, one of the great lay thinkers, writers and leaders of India and the...

  Cover image: Bishop Franco Mulakkal being brought for interrogation to the office of Superintendent of Police in Thripunithura on Friday.   | Photo Credit: H. Vibhu   dr james kottoor   Finally Bishop Franco Mulakkal is arrested after 90...

GLOBAL SISTERS REPORT A PROJECT OF NATIONAL CATHOLILC REPORTER Cover image:  Bishop Franco Mulakkal of Jalandhar, India, is led away for questioning by police Sept. 19 on the outskirts of Cochin. (CNS / Reuters / Sivaram V)   Bishop Franco...

  *Fr. Cedric Prakash SJ 21 September 2018   On Thursday 20 September, four people were killed in Maryland, US in a workplace mass shooting spree; it was the third workplace shooting in the US in less than twenty –four...

  Readers would recall an article (17 September 2018)  WHEREABOUTS OF BISHOP FRANCO MULAKKAL OF JALANDHAR – QUO VADIS?  It was written in the backdrop of Jalandhar Bishop's decision to step aside and Bishop Theodore Mascarenhas'  (Catholic Bishops' Conference of...

  By T J S George    New Indian Express Published: 16th September 2018   Note: When Vivekananda spoke 125 years ago in Chicago he was only 30 years old, the age when Jesus started his public ministry and  ended (rather forced...

Cover image: More than 27,000 people gathered in Dhaka, capital of Bangladesh, on 16th December 2014, to break the record for the world's largest human flag.   On Saturday 14th September 2018 Mr Jerome D'Costa a prolific writer from Toronto...

THE TABLET 12 September 2018 By Jorge I. Dominguez-Lopez Cover image: Some 700 faithful flocked to Our Lady of Lourdes parish, Queens Village, to celebrate the feast of “The Lourdes of the East” – Our Lady of Velankanni. It was...

  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YdRLomVIjQd7qA1St0mD92n6LYXdKtAf/view   The above link shows a notification/circular from Catholic Bishops Conference of India. It is dated 15th September 2018 and is issued and signed by Most Rev. Theodore Mascarenhas, SFX SECRETARY GENERAL.  What is noticeable is the writer...

  Jesus emptied himself to become an ordinary human with small ‘o’ to serve and wash their feet, unlike our bishops, with capital ‘O’ Ordinaries to rule over; Francis who calls himself a “sinner” placed himself one step below the...

    Note of Explanation: One who writes a lot about transparency should also be seen practising it. So this brief explanation from CCV Editor. Arcanjo Sodder, is the Editor (also an advocate) of the widely read internet portal officially...

Cover image:  Bishop Franco Mullakal, the clergyman accused by a nun of rape. (Photo: jalandhardiocese.com)   Editorial in the Statesman, Kolkata September 13, 2018   Note: The wonder of it all is, how the Catholic Church in India which parades...

TOI Editorial Page,Spirituality By Jug Suraiya September 13, 2018   Note:  Words like Religion, spirituality, faith, God etc are creating a great confusion in the minds of simple people.  Jug Suraiya  throws some light on what It is all what?...

Cover image: Pope Francis speaks during a meeting with new bishops from mission territories at the Vatican Sept. 8. (CNS/Vatican Media)   NATIONAL CATHOLIC REPORTER by Joshua J. McElwee,  12  September, 2018     Note: This story was updated with comments from...

Readers are aware of the recent developments on the agitation seeking removal/arrest of Bishop Franco Mulakkal of Jalandhar. Five nuns, belonging to the Missionaries of Jesus, are on an indefinite sit-in-demonstration in Kerala demanding the arrest of Bishop Franco Mulakkal...

   *Fr. Cedric Prakash SJ September 11, 2018   Nine eleven matters because on this date in 1906, Mahatma Gandhi launched his non-violent resistance campaign at a historic mass meeting in Johannesburg South Africa. It was the birth of a...