Author: CCV
Yoga no medium to experience divine: Church
(in the pic: A Syro-Malabar nun doing yoga in Kerala); Published on: 2:09 am, April 5, 2017 by: mattersindia.com (Note:Yes Yoga is a physical exercise but more than that. If physical exercises cannot help form correct mental and spiritual attitudes, how can so many...
15th victim of sex abuse in US Great Falls-Billings Diocese becomes 15th to file for bankruptcy
Dan Morris-Young ,| Apr. 3, 2017, in National Catholic Reporter (Note: Sex abuse by priests is driving ever so many dioceses in US to go bankrupt. This shows up the...
Meat under attack Authorities must not encourage food bigotry or harass legitimate businesses
April 3, 2017, Times of India Editorial (Note: We have all heard about Tower of Babel built to demonstrate man’s pride and power against God’s overall dominion. And it is said...
Lord Krishna Eve-teaser?
In the pic: Lawyer-activist Prashant Bhushan Ink hurled at Prashant Bhushan’s house after his ‘offensive’ comment on Lord Krishna. By: Express Web Desk | New Delhi | Published:April 3, 2017 Around 7-8 people came outside his house seeking apology from hushan for his 'insulting' comments on the deity. (Note:...
Times of India on Mass wine production in Kerala Why brandy when you have wine?
By K P Sai Kiran, in Times of India, Apr 1, 2017 (Note: This front page report in the ‘Times of India’ on Kerala Bishops’ demand to the State Government for a 900 % hike in their permit for...
African student in India speaks Authorities accuse us of taking drugs situation can’t improve by tweets’
March 31, 2017, Rohit E David in The Interviews Blog in Times of India Cover Photo: Samuel T Jack, president, Association of African students in India, spoke with Rohit E David on the recent attacks on African students in Noida, Uttar Pradesh. Samuel spoke of the...
No beef ban if we come to power in poll-bound Northeast states: BJP
Source: HINDUSTAN TIMES 1 hour ago 31 March 2017 (Note: The NDA or BJP combine has announced to North-eastern states that it won't impose a ban on beef eating there like they have have done in the states...
An Indian American’s soliloquy Don’t cry for me India
March 30, 2017, Sunil Sharan in Strategic Insights, Times of India (Note: If America is still your dream land, either to visit or live, listen to Sunil narrating his experience. White racism is on the increase and is leading to hate crimes...
India’s racist mindset must change – Racism runs deep
Editorial in the Statessman, March 31, 2017. (Note: Why has not our honourable Prime Minister uttered a word of condemnation, regret and shame – condemnation for the racist attack, regret for proclaiming to the global community,‘we are racists’ and shame...
Can Hindutva deliver vikas? Mai-baap state has to recede if development is to take off
Sagarika Ghose in Times of India, March 29. 2017 (Note: Election victories are no guarantee for victories in governance. Modi has proved time and again that he is very good at campaigning and winning elections with promises as high as...
French TV inquiry accuses 25 bishops of abuse cover-ups
Clerical sex abuse in France By Tom Heneghan , in NCR, Mar. 27, 2017 (In the pic: Left: Bishop Bernard Fellay – CNS/Paul Haring); right: Bishop Marc Aillet (Wikimedia Commons/Peter Potrowl) (Note: We (CCV) already published similar abuse in Italy (sex...
Truth about Post-truth! Two Concepts and Points of Distinction
By Shubham Sharma, New Delhi in the Statesman, March 26, 2017 (Note: Two plus two ought to make four, not three or five. That is what we ordinary humans understand by objective or factual truth. This ought not...
Alt-truth & Post-truth were discussed Alternate Christianity
By Dr. J. A. Dick, Belgium in his blog, Another Voice, March 25, 2017 (Note: This is an article by Dr. J. A. Dick, Belgium, a friend of CCV. He writes regularly in his Blog, ‘Another Voice’ ....
Pro – exogamous Bishop for a non – endogamous diocese
To Most Rev.. Michael Mulhall, Bp. of Pembroke Diocese Pembroke, Ont. Canada Most Reverent, Arch Bp. Moolakattil denies The Practice of Endogamy Expulsion In the Arch Diocese of Kottayam In A Legal Confrontation (please see the attachment). The Denial of...
Major Defeat for Trump on Obama-care: push to repeal Health Law fails
By ROBERT PEAR, GLENN THRUSH and THOMAS KAPLAN, in New York Times, Friday, March 24, 2017. (Note: A great triumph for Obama and a disaster for Trump. It was indeed the signature achievement of Obama, for which he got due...
Left, Right, Centre give three views Do we need a presidential system?
By Raju Ramachandran, Shashi Tharoor, Upendra Baxi, in the Hindu, MARCH 24, 2017 (Note: The US has a Presidential system of Government. Now Turkey’s President is campaigning in and outside the country for a vote to have a...
Not godly to be intolerant of those who question God
Murder of Coimbatore atheist – March 21, 2017 Renuka Bisht in TwinkleTwinkle, Times of India (Note: What marks out humans from animals is his capacity to question, to have an opinion of his/her own, to be different. To be different is not...
Eternal Life
Swami Snehananda Jyoti In a fast spreading consumer culture of death and destruction, power and pomp, eternal life is not on the mind of many people. Yet for those of who are not enamored by the fleeting nature of consumer...
UP-CM Hindutva hardliner for Ram mandir? Man picked by Modi-Shah
Arati R Jerath, New Delhi, in the Stateman, March 22, 2017 Yogi Adityanath (PHOTO: SNS) (Note: Read what Statesman says on UP CM, Adythyanath. It gives credit to Modi-Shah duo, who are are 24×7 politicians — they eat, breathe, sleep...
