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America, the National Catholic Review Family Time

Editorials: in April 25, 2016 Issue, of America Twins Lisbeth and Lisseth Cano, 8, attend Mass April 2 with their family at St. John of God Church in Central Islip, N.Y. The girls were baptized, confirmed, and received their first...

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CCV wish Happy Birthday

Church Citizens’ Voice Its Editors, Writers, Contributors & Readers Wish Cardinal Mar George Alancherry A shower of Lord’s blessings in all abundance On his Birth anniversary today April 19th 2016 Happy,Happy Birthday to you Supreme Pastor Of Syromalabar Church in...

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Church vandalized, pastor attacked in Chhattisgarh 

Published on: 9:17 pm, April 18, 2016 Story By: mattersindia.com Raipur: Two unidentified persons on Sunday barged into a Protestant church and thrashed the pastor and his pregnant wife in a central Indian state. The Times of India called the attackers “goons” and...

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Priest found dead in Kerala, suicide suspected 

Published on: 4:07 pm, April 18, 2016 Story By: mattersindia.com Kodungallur: A Catholic priest was found hanging in the presbytery in Kerala southern India. Father Thomas Padassery was found dead by a person working in the Mount Carmel Church of Kara parish under...

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Guardian view on  pope and marriage: making good again

Ideal vs Reality? UK Guardian –  Editorial, Sunday 10 April 2016 Pope Francis upholds an ideal of marriage, but tries not to let it overshadow the reality  Pope Francis. ‘It’s certain that he believes the real business of the church...

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Justin Welby absorbs paternity news with characteristic calm

Anglican Archbishops’s  Paternity Despite ‘grim’ upbringing, archbishop of Canterbury remains unflappable in face of revelations about biological father Justin Welby said his early life was messy and his alcoholic father cared for him ‘as far as he was able’. Photograph:...

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Pope Francis takes 12 Muslim refugees to Rome 

Published on: 1:46 am, April 17, 2016 Story By: mattersindia.com MYTILENE, Greece: Pope Francis Saturday visited the heart of Europe’s migrant crisis and took 12 Muslim refugees of three families from Syria with him back to Rome. The action punctuated the pope’s pleas...

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From Lesbos, Francis & patriarchs warn  Europe

Lesbos Refugee Camp Papal visit : :  Eternal judgment based on refugee treatment J. McElwee,  (in NCR, Apr. 16, 2016) Pope Francis meets refugees at the Moria refugee camp on the island of Lesbos, Greece, April 16, 2016. (CNS photo)      ...

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The Dead Apple Tree – Poem

You lie  forlorn and all alone, none near you to mourn your passing, you are reduced to just skeletons, all flesh denuded and gone, deserted you are by one and all.   In the  glory days of your youth, you...

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Shakespeare’s Hamlet swings by the Vatican

By Ann Schneible  Vatican City, Apr 15, 2016 / 02:38 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- They’ve performed for school children in Cambodia and refugees in Jordan. They’ve visited nearly 200 countries in the last two years, and now, they’ve performed at the Vatican...

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Hindus worship tree nurtured by Muslims 

  Published on: 7:20 pm, April 15, 2016 Story By: mattersindia.com Takpura (Ayodhya): Every morning, Asma clears the floor of a revered tree barely 25 meters from her home while her relative Qurban Ali watches over it. Thereafter, Hindus in the vicinity offer...

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Catholic priest’s body found hanging

Published on: 12:19 pm, April 13, 2016 Story By: Matters India Reporter Mysuru: A Catholic priest was found dead under mysterious circumstances on Wednesday in a parish of Mysore diocese. The diocesan officials have rushed to PG Palaya, some 35 km...

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Shifting The Goalposts: Editorial, Indian Currents

The BJP-led National Democratic Alliance rode to power promising solutions to some of the burning issues – monumental corruption, huge amount of black money lying in foreign banks, depreciation of rupee, rising prices, nose-diving exports, surging unemployment, never-ending suicides by...

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A reaction to “The greatest story never told”

The charade and lies ever and always told (Note: The article “The greatest story never told” in CCV has prompted this submission by shree Vargese Mathew. Those who would like to read the article mentioned, kindly use this link: http://almayasabdam.com/greatest-story-never-told/. Shri Verghese...

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How to be free of caste – The Hindu (April 13, 2016)

As India marks the 125th birth anniversary of B.R. Ambedkar this week, it must acknowledge the pervasiveness of discrimination and confront it head-on Pic: Dehumanising baggage: “Dalits and Adivasis still face social discrimination.” Members of the Safai Karmachari Andolan voice...

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Vote for values: Cardinal 

Published on: 6:16 am, April 13, 2016 Story By: mattersindia.com Kochi: People must vote for candidates who stand by values, have social commitment, abhor corruption, violence, and communalism, and have a clear stand on rights of minorities in the oncoming Assembly polls, Cardinal George...

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Canterbury Archbishop’s Biological Dad revealed

 Justin Welby is reinventing how to be a church leader in a sceptical world Archie Bland, in the Guardian, UK, April11,2016 After the revelations about his parentage, the Archbishop of Canterbury showed himself to be humane and generous, not an...

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Top Ten Takeaways from “Amoris Laetitia”

America,US Catholic Review gives: SYNOD ON THE FA  James Martin, S.J. in  America, the National Catholic Review, Apr 8 2016 Pope Francis greets newly married couples during his general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican in this Sept....

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Catholic bishops mourn Kerala temple fire deaths 

Published on: 8:36 am, April 10, 2016 Story By: mattersindia.com New Delhi: The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) Sunday joined national and social leaders to express shock and grief over a temple fire that killed more than 100 people and wounded 350...