Monthly Archive: March 2021

Soon it is going to be Easter. Prior to that, Catholic Church across the world, a religious drama is played out on a script based on events described in Bible about Jesus’ arrest, his trial, judgment by Pilot, crucifixion and...

Cover image: Migrant workers in Delhi head back to their home villages during the annual Chhat Puja (Worship of Sun God) in November 2019. The pandemic has exposed the vulnerability of tribal migrants, according a study by Indian Catholic bishops....

Why soft power matters: It’s an invaluable asset, India must not diminish its stock by weakening its democracy! Uday Deb                                                                                                                      By Pavan K Varma, in Times of India, March 26, 2021,   The writer Pavan Varma is a regular columnist, author and former diplomat. Weather...

Columnist  T J S George – In New Indian Expres, 13th December 2020 The reality that stares at the world today is that farmers are on the rise in India and that there is no one in the Government who can even discuss...

By Shalini Venugopal Bhagat Mattersindia.com   A wonderful saga of woman empowerment.  Meet Chandro Tomar, the indomitable 89-year-old world's oldest sharp shooter and a living legend. Isaac Gomes, Associate Editor, Church Citizens' Voice.   Johri: The 89-year-old woman stood in the courtyard...

H KHASNOBIS, in The Statesman, New Delhi | March 19, 2021  The Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols form the core of international humanitarian law, which regulate the conduct of armed conflict and seek to limit its effects United Nations Geneva headquarters. (Photo:...

                                          VARGHESE PAMPLANIL     The article “Is God, he, she, or it?” which was published in CCV has prompted this...

The article “Is God, he, she, or it?” appeared in C C V has prompted this small presentation. The origins of religions and evolution of gods.  The Hebrew Bible, the starting point of Judaism, Christianity and Islam contains remnants of the...

  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yrKiOeXgWbNiorIeyzG1kOsSnU89yUMF/view?usp=sharing   Isaac Gomes reports from Kolkata   On 14th March 2021, ANANDABAZAR PATRIKA ONLINE published a report in Bengali (link given below), on several questions the shell-shocked Laity of Bengal asked Archbishop Thomas D’Souza of the Archdiocese of...

THE NEW INDIAN EXPRESS 14 March 2021   Pinarayi Vijayan would be a useful case-study for political leaders. He was a communist who would have got drowned in any other state; he survived in Kerala because communism is not feared...

Fr. James Martin refers to God as ‘her,’ attacks so-called ‘damaging’ Portrayal of God as Man!   Father James Martin is the Edior-at-large of America Magazine, also a  prominent LGBT advocate. It is also to soft peddle the already prevalent Patriarchal...

Cover image:  Catholic priest Rodney Borneo (n white kurta) being felicitated as he formally joins BJP. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/catholic-priest-leaves-church-formally-joins-bjp/articleshow/81419564.cms MATTERSINDIA.COM 10 March 2021 Fr Francis Sunil Rosario   Since Sunday 7th March morning, the news that shook the faithful of the Archdiocese...

Jesuit Review America March 08, 2021 James Martin, S.J.     Our God is not a “Catholic God!” said Pope Francis, not that he has the last word on “God.” Many Popes have said absurd or irrational things! His views on Jesus...

Human Brotherhood first & Formost! Wed 3 Mar 2021, in the Guardian. Iraqis put up a poster announcing the upcoming visit of Pope Francis and a meeting with Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani in Najaf, Iraq. Photograph: Anmar Khalil/AP Pope Francis finally landed in...

Various type of circuses have come to town. The tents are agog with trapeze acrobats, hoopers, tightrope walkers, unicyclists, jugglers of  every kind, jokers of all sorts with  outlandish outfits and wide open painted mouths stretched to the ears. You...

Cover Photo: Japan’s prime minister YoshihideSuga, announced a minister of loneliness to his cabinet last month, closely following a similar announcement in January 2018 by the United Kingdom (UK). Loneliness is rarely acknowledged, deeply misunderstood, and alongside anxiety and depression, presents...

  THE INDIAN EXPRESS 4th March 2021        Karishma Mehrotra | New Delhi   India’s score decreased from 71 to 67, with 100 being the ranking for the most free country, and its rank fell from 83 to 88...

The article below is from the publisher of LifeSite. In it he presents his views as convincingly as possible for or against on all and sudry, strting with his views on popes Benecict, Francis, pro and and anti-abortion policies in US,...

NDTV 1 March 2021   Yashwant Sinha   A new wave of patriotism is sweeping through the land. We have not seen the likes of it before. This new cult of patriotism does not merely stop at claiming loudly "I...

Note: Recently, our columnist Varghese Pamplanil sent me a link on why there are so many divisions within Christianity (https://www.livescience.com/christianity-denominations.html.) Actually it is an ashaming question to which we do not have a definite answer. Globally, the number of denominations...