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Is this the future of marriage prep in the Church?

By Peter Jesserer Smith. Lafayette, La., Nov 8, 2015 / 03:09 pm (National Catholic Register).- Father Michael Delcambre looked at his congregation on Sunday and realized he had what other pastors might call an unusual sight: He counted 10 newly married...

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Will defeat change Ways of Modi, Shah?

Editorial in  The Asian Age, Nov 08, 2015 (It will be interesting to see how the BJP proceeds to shield Mr Modi and Mr Shah from a natural political downsizing after the Bihar loss. All make mistakes. The wise learn...

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Step on accelerator, or be thrown out

(Rahul Gandhi, along with other party leaders, addresses the media on the Bihar results . (Photo: Pritam Bandyopadhyay) Taking a dig at Mr Narendra Modi over the NDA’s setback in Bihar, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Sunday said that the...

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Invincible Modiji Deafeted – The Asian Age

Bihar’s  Nitish defeats Modi     Lalu emerges kingmaker –  Nov.8/15 – Lalu Prasad Yadav with Nitish Kumar (Photo: PTI/file) (Exit polls had hinted at all possible outcomes, But where is  Chanaky’s granting Modi clear lead of 155 and now Nithish winning...

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Clergy called to Serve, not to do business

Church leaders can’t live ‘the life of a pharaoh’ Pope assails status-seekers in interview with a street paper sold by the homeless By Inés San Martín, Vatican correspondent November 6, 2015 Street paper vendor Marc from Utrecht in the Netherlands...

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‘Acche din’ not here, neither ‘bure din’

Arun Shourie is  right & wrong   –  By  Arihant Panagariya, in First Post.com (Repeated silence on the part of the ruling party, especially Modi,  encouraged both frequency and visibility of BJP’s  vicious communal attacks, verbal and physical. This  dimmed...

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A Moral Boost For Juveniles – Editorial, Indian Currents

Dr Suresh Mathew  In the abnormally growing crime scenario in the country, two features stand out strikingly – an escalation in the number of juvenile criminals and an increase in child abuse cases. The cases involved are not petty ones,...

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Registration of Greenpeace India cancelled

(Matters India) New Delhi: The Tamil Nadu Registrar of Societies has cancelled the registration of Greenpeace India, the environmental NGO that has been campaigning against air pollution and the unsustainable use of natural resources in India. Greenpeace India, registered as an...

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Child abuse – Is Pope Francis going to bite the bullet?

(Curtsy – http://www.catholica.com.au/gc4/kt/013_kt_051115.php) Pope Francis has been described as an enigma now by quite a few commentators, including Bishop Geoff Robinson in his most recent book. In this commentary, lawyer,Kieran Tapsell, puts the case that while Pope Francis's calls for mercy and compassion are greatly...

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Bihar exit polls over what next?

(In the pic: Nitish Kumar and Narendra Modi in file photos. PTI) (Will people in Bihar with literacy level so teach politicians a lesson? Even in a literate America, they describe, democracy as a government of hypocrites, by hypocrites, for...

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Catholic nurses pledge to be guardians of life

The apostolic nuncio, five bishops, 16 priests and experts in the medical field were present at the convention. India: (UCAN) Catholic nurses in India reiterated their pledge to be ‘guardians of life’ against today’s ‘culture of death’ at their 20th annual...

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Gilded Cage? No, he hates it.

Reporting by Philip Pullella, Nov 7, 2015 01:16 IST (Note: Pope said this in  an interview with Straatnieuws, a Dutch newspaper written by and for homeless people. As a boy of 4 going to market with his mother, he told...

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Ordination of married men

It would cause other major changes within the church Joan Chittister | Nov. 6, 2015 in NCR (Note: Benedictine Sr. Joan Chittister, is also a recipient of many awards for her outspoken stand on socio-political-religious issues. She told Bush to...

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Hundreds attend educationist nun’s funeral

New Delhi (Matters India): Hundreds of people on Wednesday attended the funeral of an Ireland-born nun who revolutionized modern education in northern India and observed at close quarters two independence movements in South Asia. Sr. Bonaventure Morgan died of old...