Author: Church Citizens' Voice

  A time to stretch our imagination and intelligence, to learn in new ways, to prepare for a changed world!   By Charles BO ZENITH   May 11, 2920     Cardinal Charles Maung Bo is the President of the Federation...

  Varghese Pamplanil   Sir,   I am simply stunned and overwhelmed in reading the sterling, stirring and rousing speech of Sr. Joan Chistter through the columns of Church Citizens' Voice. Hats off to you my friend,  James for unearthing such...

Thinking class, break up your Fetters!  Here is once again another marathon research article, rational, philosophical, theological and historical by our esteemed columnist Pamplanil,though he claims to be none in any of these fields of research. He says he was...

Cover photo: President Donald Trump speaks during the daily coronavirus disease outbreak task force briefing at the White House in Washington April 21. (CNS/Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)   NATIONAL CATHOLIC REPORTER by Joan Chittister 6 May 2020     The writer of the article...

   Steven P. Millies US Catholic 4th May 2020     Church men playing politics is the pastime in all countries, in US or India. What they forget is that doing politics, is the duty of the laity, not clergy....

  *Fr. Cedric Prakash SJ   ‘World Press Freedom Day’ (3 May) in India is a day of reckoning: a time for stock-taking and for soul-searching; to realise the abysmal depths to which the ‘press’ has fallen in the country...

  Ramachandra Guha in NDTV 22 April, 2020     Kerala model, on various counts,  is not only the talk of the town or even of the country but of the whole world, in international press from New York times onwards....

  Christian living is paradoxical even as the life of Jesus was.  It is in giving that we receive, it is in serving that we rule, it is the last who becomes  first, it is in dying that we are...

Cover photo: St. Corona. Image courtesy of Creative Commons   By George Nedumparambil   With all the Cathedrals, churches, chapels, mosques and temples all over the world having been shut for more than a month, the business of organized religion...

  james kottoor   Faith healers and health workers are in mortal conflict. It is in this context the words of Jesus the Man (God, disputed) shines best!   ‘When you had done it to these little ones of mine,...

  Cover photo: A deserted view of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus amid nationwide lockdown, in Mumbai. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has extended a nationwide lockdown through May 3 as India steps up its fight to contain the spread of the...

      ISAAC GOMES   On Tuesday 14th April, after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced further extension of the nationwide lockdown by another 19 days till 3rd May 2020, India Today TV conducted a very enriching interview with Professor...

  Varghese Pamplanil   The article by Jerome D’Costa is very relevant and timely. The Evangelical vultures are out in search of carrions for gorging up. Their aim apparently is to fish in troubled waters. Instead of showing empathy to...

    JEROME D'COSTA Toronto, Ontario, Canada   The writer, Jerome D'Costa has held out that the worldwide onslaught of Coronavirus, especially in Christian-dominated Eurepean countries and the USA, has given ammunition to some religious leaders who are shouting from the...

#chhotebhai   As the Secretary of the Legion of Mary in my parish 51 years ago it was my lot to give a commentary on the Holy Week liturgy. That got me thinking on what was so unique about Jesus’...

*Fr. Cedric Prakash SJ Cover photo:  A massive fire broke out on Sunday after a flying lantern fell on a hut in Jaipur's Vaishali Nagar in Rajasthan after the people of the country switched off their lights for 9 minutes at...

CHHOTEBHAI   My previous two articles were in response to questions being raised about religion in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.They have elicited varying responses. One school of thought still clings to the belief that Religion is now dead...

  THE UNIVERSAL NEWS NETWORK Michigan USA 29 March 2020 George Abraham   A very analytical article by Geroge Abraham on the dangers of dilution of India's Judiciary and its independence, by offer of plum posts to its own votaries....

Cover photo: Media personnel maintain social distance as they interview health workers sanitising an area near Nizamuddin, after people who attended the religious congregation at Tabligh-e-Jamaat's Markaz, tested positive for Covid-19, in New Delhi. Photo: PTI   GEORGE NEDUPARAMBIL   Do the...

      CHHOTEBHAI   This query may sound sacrilegious to the pious, religious Christian. It maybe a valid question for those who claim that Jesus did not found any religion. In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic that has...