By Mark Gray, Our Sunday Vivitor Newsweekly, 8/27/2016 Many youths and young adults who have left the Church point to their belief that there is a disconnect between science and religion. Fewer young people are staying Catholic. (Note: Arul Louis in...
Sep 09, 2016, Editorial in Asian Age The hike plan has the stamp of officialdom all over it; it cannot have been the brainchild of transport economists or careful business planners and deserves to be thrown out lock,...
(Note: Chhobebhai needs no introduction. He is known to the Indian Laity as a very committed Catholic and a prolific writer. Here is a profound, thought-provoking and fearless article by Chhotebhai – Isaac Gomes) After watching the canonisation ceremony...
On ZENIT’s Web page, 7 September, 2016 (Note: Tormented by doubt, confusion and darkness about Jesus, John the Baptist sends messengers to ask: “Are you the one who is to come? Mother Teresa spoke of similar darkness and who among us...
Make action on poverty, a national priority – NCR Editorial Staff , Sep. 7, 2016 In the pic: A person sleeps on a sidewalk in New York City Aug. 11, 2015. (CNS/Justin Lane, EPA) (Note: “He has sent me to preach the good news...
In Huffinton post, PTI, 7/9/16 The Centre is considering moves to curb their foreign travel by withdrawing their passports and denying travel documents in some cases. 07/09/2016 8:25 AM IST | Updated 1 hour ago PTI (Note: You can’t have the cake...
The procedure for the canonisation of Mother Teresa is going full steam in the Vatican. It will be a triumph for the Roman Catholic Church and Pope John Paul II. But the Pope and Catholic theologians do not realise they...
Editorial in Indian Express, September 5, 2016 Mother Teresa reached out to those that state and society had failed. (Note: Actions speak volumes and louder than a books full of words and lecturing. With one gesture of rejecting any banquet...
By Ajay Ghosh, Editorial, in Universal News Nerwork, Aug.29/ 16 (Note: The title itself is self evident. The world has been so all the time. Inequality among humans – in social, cultural, religious, economic and political domains — has brought only misery,...
(Note: ‘Saint’, ‘Mother’, ‘Of Gutters’. Which of these is most appropriate for Teresa? ‘Mother’ ties her up with all. ‘Of Gutters’ highlights her first love and closeness to the poor. So “Mother of Gutters” may be most appropriate for...
By Tina Beattie, in The Tablet UK, Sept.1, 2016. The row over burkinis is a reminder not only of the attitude of Islam to women’s bodies but also of the presumptions about the female form in Christianity, Judaism and secular society....
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY TO FAVOUR DESCENDANTS OF SLAVES IN ADMISSIONS PROCESS By James Roberts, in Tablet uk, 01 September 2016 The new measure is to atone for its slave-trading past Georgetown University in Washington D.C. is to give preferential status in its admissions process to descendants...
(Note: CCV's Isaac Gomes reproduces an article on Layman's Guide to Canonisation which appeared in the Hindustan Times on 28th August, 2016,) What is Canonisation? Canonisation is the act by which the Pope declares that a person practiced heroic virtue...
Catholic Reform Group Urges New Department for the Laity, Family, and Life to Actively Collaborate with Lay-led Initiatives (Note: Catholic Church Reform Group Int’l, headed by Rene Reid, has forwarded the following message for immediate release.Yes, what is urgently needed now, that is, after conducting two...
Ramdev Guru in News & Ads? – By Shailaja Bajpai, Indian Express, September 1, 2016 Ramdev is a major TV advertiser. He also makes news! (Note: Baba Ramdev is known both as a religious figure (Guru) and a business man. The commonly accepted concept...
A nun who wanted to quit a Kerala church, now faces criminal cases, branded mentally unstable. "I forgave them and tolerated everything till now. I cannot take it any further,” Sr Mary Sebastian says – Megha Varier| – Monday, August 8, 2016...
Kolkata, Aug 31, 2016, (PTI) in Deccan Herald Two drivers of a popular online cab aggregator service were arrested today for their alleged involvement in raping and killing a 12-year-old pavement dweller in the city. (Note: What unbelievable things are happening...
Behold the Man! (Behold India!) – Manu Joseph, in Hindustan Time, Aug 28, 2016 The man and his daughter had walked about 12 kilometres this way when some journalists spotted him and saw news. (ANI) (Note: “Behold the Man!” was first said...
'Do you want the poor to Pay Even to Shit?' – Top of Form (August 30, 2016 , in Reddif.com) 'We cannot let this country be a place where the poor pay to shit.' That is inhuman and unacceptable.' (Note: There is a...
Don’t Flaunt Wealth at Weddings! By Liz Mathew, in Indian Express, August 30, 2016 Quoting reports, the Church body said more than 800 tonnes of gold are bought for weddings in Kerala, while poor girls are finding it difficult to get...
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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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