Cover image: Retired Pope Benedict XVI greets cardinals before a consistory for the creation of new cardinals in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican in this Feb. 22, 2014, file photo. (CNS/Paul Hing) What about having two prime...
Cover image: Fr. Frans Van Der Lugt, lovingly called ‘Abouna Frans’, was brutally gunned down in Homs Syria on April 7 2014. Fr Cedric Prakash SJ* Miryiam (name changed) spoke in a steely voice, but with passion as tears welled in her eyes, “Yes, they...
Given below is an Open Letter from chhotebhai,Convenor of Indian Catholic Forum (ICF) addressed to the Nuncio in New Delhi. In this letter chhotebhai has requested the Nuncio to stem a series of rotten events in Jalandhar, which began with the...
TNM(The News Minute) Staff Tuesday, April 09, 2019 They expressed concern that the Election Commission's independence, fairness, impartiality are perceived to be compromised today, thereby endangering the integrity of the electoral process. THIS IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT for...
Rev. Valson Thampu The Statesman 4 April, 2019 Note: For the last five years Pope Francis has been trying his very best to reform the Church with the motto “a poor church for the poor!”. It was precisely for this...
Maike Hickson LifeSite News March 29, 2019 Once upon a time all thought of Makara-Vilakke the light that shines on Sabarimala at the end of the month-long fasting and pilgrimage as supernatural. Now we know that it...
This report is published for two reasons: 1. To remind all the importance of the IDES OF MARCH, which is on March 15, 44 BC when the historic murder of Julius Caesar took place led by his friend Brutus,...
REUTERS in DECCAN CHRONICLE Mar 27, 2019 The evolving Catholic Church culture now presents a new dilemma of whether kissing the pope’s hand is appropriate or not. Cover Photo: While visiting a Catholic shrine in Loreto on Monday, Pope...
By Zita Ballinger Fletcher Catholic News Service in NCR March 15, 2019 To understand the importance of the German Bishops’ conference, past, present and forth coming, we have to leap back very far into history into the times of Vatican...
U.S. CATHOLIC By Elyse Raby Monday, March 25, 2019 Cover Image: Flickr cc via Andrew Hedstrom How the church forms ministers is crucial, says a new report on the clergy sex abuse crisis. A thought-provoking article in the...
THE HINDU March 26, 2019 Harsh Mander There are many reasons for publishing this article in CCV. First is the one sentence in the article about PM Modi, second is the title of the article; third is...
Cover Photo: Raghuram Rajan cautioned that the current fiscal space of India is not conducive for such a high-expenditure scheme. (Photo: Reuters) INDIA TODAY 26 March 2019 Former RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan has just given a series...
– Fr Cedric Prakash SJ* On 14 October 2018, Pope Francis canonised Archbishop Oscar Romero. In his homily during the ceremony, the Holy Father lauded Romero for leaving "the security of the world, even his own safety, in...
The Editors Jesuit Review America March 21, 2019 Note: What did the much trumpeted Rome Clerical-Sex Summit achieve and failed to achieve? Even before it was convened, there was a hue and cry that it was going...
Swami Agnivesh, in the Telegraph March 14, 2019 It thrives on human underdevelopment and what Immanuel Kant called ‘immaturity’ — the inclination to be under ‘tutelage’ Note: Humans are constantly caught between two great abysses:...
Ed Condon/CNA in Catholic Herald,UK, 18 February, 2019 McCarrick’s (in cover photo) laicization still doesn't answer the question of how he was able to rise so high! Note: This is a background report on the laicization of...
The article below written by Fr Francis Sunil Rosario appearerd in The Herald Kolkata issue dated 15-21st March 2019. It will be of great interest to many in our country especially those who have connections in the UK...
Tbis has reference to Rev. Valson Thampu's article published in Church Citizens Voice on 19th March 2019. "He will value God as a sort of cosmic ATM, the priest being the gate-keeper". This is classic stuff from Revd....
james kottoor Congrats to Valson Tampu for his thoughtful, instructive and rationally argued article: “Protect kids from Priest-craft”(See CCV March 19, 2019). Reading Valson’s article on protecting kids from“Priest-craft”, reminded me of “witch-craft” and its vile machinations....
Valson Thampu in the THE NEW INDIAN EXPRESS 18 March 2019 No religion is safe in the hands of priests. The pattern of irrational dependence on priestly favours impairs your child’s will to endure. Readers of Church Citizens' Voice...
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What Have You Done?
"I was hungry, and you formed a humanities club, and discussed my hunger.
I was imprisoned, and you crept of quietly to your chapel in the cellar and prayed for my release.
I was naked, and in your mind you debated the morality of my appearance.
I was sick, and you knelt and thanked God for your good health.
I was homeless, and you preached to me the spiritual shelter of the love of God.
I was lonely, and you left me alone to pray for me.
You seem so holy, so close to God:
But I am still very hungry, and lonely and cold.
So where have your prayers gone? What have they done?
What does it profit a man to go through his book of prayers, when the rest of the world is crying for help.
-Bob Rawland
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