REPUBLICS AND REPUBLICS
Varghese Pamplanil The Flip-board of 26th instant carried a very good article by Ms. Steena Joy...
Author: Church Citizens' Voice
A critique of Pope John Paul II Institutes! New JPII Institute Professors Question Church Orthodoxy on Homosexuality,Contraception
Cover image: Fathers Maurizio Chiodi (L) and Pier Davide Guenzi (R) (photo: YouTube) Edward Pentin Blogs September 13, 2019 Both Fathers currently teach moral theology at the University of Northern Italy in Milan, and both are well known for their questioning of moral...
Mamma Mia? Show the way to Paradise
Varghese Pamplanil The butthole for sex A well preserved 120 million year old fossil found in Liaoning province in northeastern China...
Dreaming up a little one-world home? Vatican News links UN day celebrating religious pluralism to influence of Pope Francis
Cover photo: Pope Francis addresses the General Assembly during his visit to the United Nations headquarters in New York, U.S., Sept. 25, 2015. Luiz Rampelotto/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images LIFESITE NEWS 21 January 2021 Jeanne Smits Paris Correspondent The...
Make Farmer a competitor in the Market! Bolstering Corporates was intent of farmlaws!
Cover image: When the Supreme Court finally does decide to hear the farm laws matter, for many petitions that deal with equally contentious decisions taken by the current government continue hanging fire in the apex court. (PTI) ASIAN AGE 18...
Shocking, hurting, mean attacks on ‘Bergoglio’! Archbishop Viganò reacts to Pope Francis saying all must take Covid Vaccine!
Considerations by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò on the promotion of the vaccine by the Holy See. Fri Jan 15, 2021 LifeSite News 14 January 2021 I could not belive it until I read it on LifeSite on...
Imitate Vivekananda & Francis Papa! Swami Vivekananda’s thought is as relevant to India’s future as it was in its past
Swami Vivekananda’s birthday is celebrated as National Youth Day in India. (File Photo) THE INDIAN EXPRESS Prahlad Singh Patel 13 January 2021 Swami Vivekananda combined thinking of different religions, communities and traditions. His thoughts inspire liberation from inertia. ...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR – THE NEXUS BETWEEN RELIGION, FUNDAMENTALISM AND COMMUNALISM
The Webinar in Kolkata on 8th January 2021 on the topic “Role of Religion Amidst Growing Communalism and Fundamentalism” is very relevant in the Indian context. The worldly wise and theologically primed participants seemed to be shy of...
“Our ‘ghar wapsi’ only after ‘law wapsi’, Farmers! Farmers dig in heels, say ready for Bakshi in Delhi
The farmer groups have also decided to meet on January 11 to decide their next course of action, even as many leaders said they have lost hope now that any resolution could be reached even in the next round of...
PANEL DISCUSSION ON ROLE OF RELIGION AMIDST GROWING COMMUNALISM & FUNDAMENTALISM
Isaac Gomes Kolkata In John Chapter 14, Verse 27 Jesus tells his disciples: “Peace I leave you, my peace I give to you.” Amidst conflict and chaos, Covid-19 being one of them, the whole world today is desperately in...
Be a drop to drill a HOLE in stony Silence! Brides of Jesus?
The Statesman, Kolkata January 5, 2021 VALSON THAMPU Whether a woman should live sexually exploited against her will lifelong, is not a religious issue. It is a serious human rights and civilizational issue. No religious law should stand...
ARE WE RUSHING TOWARDS PERILOUS TIMES? WHAT MAY BE IN STORE?
VARGHESE PAMPLANIL The pandemic Covid–19 seems to redrawing the contours of societies all over the world. The economic downtrend consequent to the paradigm shift in the economic scenario to the disadvantage of the vast segment of human population deprived...
Who care for the Farmers in distress? Anna Hazare threatens to launch his ‘last protest’ for farmers
Cover photo: On December 14, Hazare wrote a letter to Union agriculture minister Narendra Singh Tomar warning of a hunger strike if his demands like the implementation of the MS Swaminathan Committee’s recommendations (PTI) INDIA Updated: Dec 28, 2020, Press Trust...
Letter to the Editor – PRAY FOR US “SAINT ABHAYA”
Apropos CCV of 23rd December 2020. My suggestion: print thousands of coloured portraits of St. ABHAYA, martyr saint, by KCRM and other activists and distribute them among all Catholics all over the world as protector of young women from...
Stop mixing freedom to marry with all freedoms! Love jihad is nonsense!
THE INDIAN EXPRESS 20 December 2020 TAVLEEN SINGH The idea that there is a widespread Muslim conspiracy to prey on innocent Hindu girls and convert them to Islam is ludicrous. Freedom of CHOICE of a human,...
Letter to the Editor – Priest Imgregnates Nun
This has reference to the report captioned Priest impregnates nun: Catholic women deplore Church’s “double standard. The Indian Catholic Church Hierarchy and their lackeys will NEVER imlement the Law: PREVENTION OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT OF WOMEN AT WORKPLACE as suggested by the...
BJP Is Always Uncomfortable With Tagore – PM Modi Quoting His Poems Won’t Reverse This
THE WIRE 16 December 2020 Himadri Ghosh Kolkata: On December 1, BJP Rajya Sabha MP Subramanian Swamy wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging that some words of National Anthem be replaced by the version of the ‘Jana...
Ramachandra Guha wrote on Dec.10th Why The Gandhis Must Go Now
NDTV – OPINION December 10, 2020 Ramachandra Guha “News is not news if it is not new!” This is just an example of rear-view driving, which expert drivers do constantly. We writers also do it once in...
An interview with Kerala CM ‘Vijayan is running a chief ministerial form of government ..His troubles show he is missing political input from the party!’
The Interviews Blog in Edit Page – TOI Q&A December 13, 2020 The term of Kerala’s LDF government ends next year. N.S. Madhavan, a former bureaucrat, creative writer and political analyst, spoke to Viju B on the political landscape in the state and...
DENOMINATIONS ARE ABOMINATIONS
# chhotebhai I find the word “denominations” abominable. In an era of competition between different churches, the term was used to distinguish between them. In today’s ecumenical era, the term becomes redundant. I would rather call them “Sister...
