Author: Church Citizens' Voice

National Catholic Reporter by Fr James Keenan SJ Oct 12, 2018   Cover image: The first eucharistic prayer is seen on a page from a copy of the Roman Missal in this 2011 CNS file photo (CNS/Nancy Wiechec)   Note:...

*Fr. Cedric Prakash SJ     On Sunday 14 October, Pope Francis will canonize seven women and men as saints of the Catholic Church. Each of these have proved outstanding in holiness and contributed in significant ways to help make...

Cover image: Pope Francis talks with Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri (second left) as they leave after addressing the opening of the Synod of Bishops on Oct. 3, 2018 at the Vatican. (Photo by Andreas Solaro/AFP)   LA CROIX INTERNATIONAL Fr. Myron...

Photo credit : Julie Lonneman   By National Catholic Reporter Editorial Staff Oct 12, 2018   Note: Pope Paul VI became famous and notorious for two things: 1.  His arch conservative birth control encyclical and 2. Opposition to liberation theology of...

  Colleen Dulle in America the Jesuit Weekly 10 October 2018   Cover image: Protest outside Vatican by group calling for representation of women, Oct.3rd the opening day of Synod   Note: Pandora’s box has opened already on the first...

Cover image: Pope Francis signs a boy's cast during the meeting Hall with young people    SALVATORE CERNUZIO From Vatican Insider – The Vatican 06 October 2018   Francis at the meeting for the Synod “WE FOR. Unique, supportive, creative”: “You are...

*Fr. Cedric Prakash SJ   Cover image: Mahatma Gandhi when he was practising as an attorney in South Africa. He is seated in front of a window bearing his name, on the left is H S L Polak then his...

to Archbishop Kuriakose Bharanikulangara   Note:  The talk of the town every where for the past two weeks in India  has been on the sorry shameful plight of a Kerala Nun allegedly raped by bp. Mulakkal. She was made to...

chhotebhai     KANPUR: The Catholics of Kanpur joined a large number of Gandhians, social and civic activists in a commemoration of Mahatma Gandhi on the eve of his sesquicentennial (150th) birth anniversary on 1st October.   The commemoration was...

  Krishnadas Rajagopal The Hindu  October 01, 2018    Cover Image: Chief Justice of India Designate Justice Ranjan Gogoi (left) and outgoing CJI Dipak Misra during a farewell function organised by the Supreme Court Bar Association for the retiring CJI,...

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...

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...