Author: CCV

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Only female cleric in Synod speaks

What’s it like being the only female  cleric at the synod on young people? Luke Hansen, S.J. in America, Jesuit Review,October 22, 2018 Rev. Martina Viktorie Kopecká at the Synod on young people (Credit: Vatican Media) Note: Have you made mistakes...

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Patel statue Politics!

NOTE; (”Deepa Stampam Mahaschariam Namakkum kittanam panam”) Light house is marvelous, I too must get my share,” was the Kunchan Nambiar Kerala tradition. Deviating from that beaten track few critics of Patel Statue have come out with their own views. See...

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M.J. Akbar should have resigned Or else, asked to go

Untenable: on M.J. Akbar – ​EDITORIAL IN THE HINDU, OCTOBER 15, 2018.  Note: Given below are two editorials from the Hindu: one on M.J. Akbar and another on Mulakkal, both in connection with sex abuse and patriarchy, in civil society and...

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THE CELIBATE DEBATE – Chhotebhai

Hardly have I seen articles more challenging than those of the author Chhotebhai. Most of his catches are more or less like that – much bigger than even the boat. Chhotebhai is peeling a fishy item here. The bang will take...

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Third Millennial Catholic Reformation

Look ahead, not back to become a salt pillar! Third Millennial Catholic Reformation From ccri-advisors Report of ST meeting Sept. 20, 2018 – John A. Dick, Ph.D., S.T.D.  Note: This is from the latest circular Rene Reid of the Catholic Church Reform International...

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Open Letter to the bishops on Jalandhar issue

Readers are aware of the recent developments on the agitation seeking removal/arrest of Bishop Franco Mulakkal of Jalandhar. Five nuns, belonging to the Missionaries of Jesus, are on an indefinite sit-in-demonstration in Kerala demanding the arrest of Bishop Franco Mulakkal...

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NINE ELEVEN MATTERS!

   *Fr. Cedric Prakash SJ September 11, 2018   Nine eleven matters because on this date in 1906, Mahatma Gandhi launched his non-violent resistance campaign at a historic mass meeting in Johannesburg South Africa. It was the birth of a...

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Dissent is the Safety Valve of Democracy

Isaac Gomes of Kolkata placed a post on my Facebook on Dissent the safety valve, and I posted reply to Isaac.   Both are given below. Kindly do me the service of sending your reaction for or against Justice D.Y....