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Deadliest mass shooting in US history

(In the pic: Kelvin Cobaris, a local clergyman, consoles Orlando city commissioner Patty Sheehan, right, and Terry DeCarlo, left, executive director of the LGBT Center of Central Florida. Credit Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel, via Associated Press)  Frank Bruni,  in New York Times, JUNE...

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Hillary factor in India ties

Election cock fight to watch Kalyani Shankar, in the Statesman, 12 June, 2016 Hillary Clinton (AFP) (Note: Possibility can always become probability and then reality. Only in that sense we can now say, that Hilary Clinton may become the first woman...

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Away with unchristian heretical rigid idealism – Editorial

  Be propheticaly human to fight for healthy  realism!  dr. james kottoor This is a commentary on the news report “Rigid idealism or healthy realism?”,  a sermon Pope Francis preached at St.Marthas on June 9th published in the CCV  today. In...

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Jesus teaches us  a healthy realism”

(Pope Francis celebrates mass in the St. Martha House chapel)  Rigid idealism or healthy realism?   “It’s  heresy to  say:  This  or  nothing! Jesus teaches us  a healthy realism” From Vatican Insider 09/06/2016                  At this morning’s mass in St. Martha’s House, Pope...

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1.46 lakh lives lost on Indian roads last year

Road accidents in India By Somesh Jha, in the Hindu, June 10, 2016 The Hindu: Majority of road accident victims are in the 15-34 age group. File photo: K. Ananthan  (Note: It should open everyone’s eyes when they hear that...

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PSYCHO-SPIRITUAL GROWTH

Of all creation, only humans are endowed with freedom. Choice involves freedom. Sin or evil and virtue or good deed presuppose choice. Psycho-spiritual growth involves choice. It affects all: theists, agnostics, and atheists. God of theists is considered as Force...

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Modi’s popularity on the wane: CPI

According to CPI reporter Staff Reporter in the Hindu, June 9/16 PICKING HOLES:Communist Party of India national general secretary Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy criticized the Narendra Modi Government for its alleged ‘failure’.- Photo: Nagara Gopal Party tears apart corruption-free claims of...

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     Pope: ‘Church needs to get political’

Must meddle in Politics?    CHRISTOPHER LAMB,  in Vatican insider(La stampa) 04/06/2016 Francis gives speech to world's judges on how to tackle modern day slavery Papa Francisco and Sanchez Sorondo (Note: What is the most preferred profession in the world?...

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Will Vatican Discipline Offending Bishops?

New York Times Editorial By The editorial board,  in NY Times  June 8, 2016 Pope Francis in Saint Peter’s Square at the Vatican last (Note: Apparently neither New York times nor people in general seem to believe or take seriously what the...

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Syro-malabar Church gets Its First  Married Deacon

 Published in Matters India, 7, 2016 Deacon Joice James with his family. Joice had pursued a total of five years of seminary study in India and London.  (Note: The discussion world wide on conferring diaconate to women in the Latin Church is...

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First US Lady President?

Hillary makes history DECCAN CHRONICLE.Jun 8, 2016 No woman before her was officially projected by a leading American political party to fight for the presidency. Democratic White House hopeful Hillary Clinton (Photo: AP) (Note: US the oldest democracy in the...

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Colour of Hate

Reflection on Racism & Cateism – Sunanda K. Datta-Ray in Deccan Chronicle (June 7/16)  The spate of attacks on Africans since January shames us as a nation. It brings greater disgrace to a government that fails to take prompt action against...

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If Trump is not Christian Is Kottayam Archbishop a Christian?

National Coordinator, KANA USA asks  By Alex Kavumpurath, National Coordinator, KANA (Alex Estapan Kavumpurath is the National Coordinator, KANA, USA. He has  sent this letter to CCV in the context of building Pure Blood  marriage wall barring entry to non-knanaya...

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What is  Editorial Note? How it helps CCV Readers

Chief Editor: for benefit of Readers dr. jameskottoor First of all kindly accept the greetings of CCV editors to all our readers, writers, advisers, critics and well wishers. Uppermost in our minds is the phrase: “Thank You” for making the...

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​Women: Reopen Ordination Dialogue!

CAMPAIGNERS FOR WOMEN'S ORDINATION HAVE UNPRECEDENTED MEETING WITH VATICAN REPRESENTATIVE By Christopher Lamb in Rome, in the Tablet uk,  June 1/16 The group has been given official permission to hold a public demonstration in the gardens of Castel Sant’AngeloCampaigners calling for women priests...