Monthly Archive: July 2019
Priests protest Indian cardinal Returned to diocese! 1.5K84 Cardinal George Alencherry of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church at Mass in St. Peter's Basilica on Oct. 12, 2014. Credit: Lauren Cater/CNA. Note: Stale news! News is not news if it is not new! Why...
Cardinal sin, dissent `crucifiying’ Church in Kerala! July 16, 2019 Matters India Note: An independent report from Matters India, than a comment from an editor of CCV tells it all. This report brings together the highlighs of Clerical sex abuse over the past...
# chhotebhai STIRRINGS As the All India Catholic Union (AICU) celebrates its centenary in 2019 the incumbent National President (NP), Lancy D’cunha, has asked me to record the history of the AICU during my tenure as NP (1990-94),...
By Marianne Farina, C.S.C., in US Catholic , September 19, 2016 Note: If there is a group of people among whom there is an amount of conflicting views about Jesus, it is among the Muslims. Yet we know that Judalism, Christianty and...
Good without God – Editorial, in the Guardian, Mon 15 Jul 2019 If organised mainstream Christianity is on the way out, what will replace it? A congregation in an Anglican church. Photograph: Kumar Sriskandan/Al Note: Is religion fading out of this world, as...
Indian Catholic priest who claims parents' sins cause autism in children cancels Australia tour! PHOTO: Father Dominic Valanmanal claims to have cured autism. (Facebook: Father Dominic Valanmanal) Note: This is not to find fault with anyone, but to caution all well-meaning, but too...
On behalf of the CCV crew, may I thank the US Catholic community, especially Shri Chacko Kalarickal, its power centre, for all the honours showered upon our Chief Editor, who always prefers to appear in small letters. Right from the...
*Fr. Cedric Prakash SJ “Amalan, was a man in a hurry!” said our Provincial Fr Francis Parmar in his moving farewell tribute to you, at the introduction of the Eucharistic Celebration at Rosary Cathedral yesterday (28 June). Fr Francis...
Note: The person discusased here is Cardinal Reinhard Marx of Munich, head of the German Bishops’ Conference. In Germany bishops and people in general are progressive and assertive in what they are convinced of and so they are in the...
House divided against itself cannot Stand! Note: This report is received from Rev. Valsoan Thampu, a well-wisher of the Syromalabar Church and a member of the Church of the Church of South India. Internal divisions and fighting, between priests, laity...
In the Asian Age, Published : Jul 2, 2019 20-year-old Mohammad Furqan was admitted to a private hospital on June 21 after an accident and declared dead on Monday. ‘We had paid Rs. 7 lakh to the private hospital earlier and when...
Finally, Kerala’s sensational nun-rape case will move another step forward this week. Former bishop Franco Mulakkal (File | EPS) A cartoon report we published in CCV (June 14) says it all: The Catholic Church in Kerala, also in the whole world,...
"The MLAs are approaching us as Chandrababu Naidu will soon be in jail on alleged corruption charges," BJP National Secretary Sunil Deodhar said. Article by IANS In the News Minute, Thursday, July 04, 2019 All ready during the election...
Homosexuality & Catholic Church! – Martin M. Barillas What is the teaching on homosexuality (Sodomy came from “Sodom & Gomora” destroyed by fire) in the scriptures and in the Catholic Church? Who am I to Judge? Evidently an epoch making change...
End to Congress Dynastee rule? Now that Rahul Gandhi has officially resigned, The journalist rule is: “Don’t say it, write it!” because what is written stays. Hence also the scriptural confirmation: “What is written is written (Quod scripsi, scripsit) Our congrats...
In Matters India, June 29, 2019 Matters India Bishop's House of Ernakulam Angamaly About 200 own priests of diocese, instantly and spontaneously protesting against the reinstatement of an accused Cardinal, by the Vatican, is something out of the ordinary! In such...