Category: Christian World
Has our Democracy become ‘A Talking shop?’ Who can resist the magic of PM Modi’s oratory?
T J S George New Indian Express 1st November 2020 The damage inflicted by Narendra Modi’s use of power to promote Hindutva partisanship on the one hand and his own persona on the other will not lend itself...
INCONGRUITIES GALORE : UNAUTHORISED VERSION OF THE BIBLE?
VARGHESE PAMPLANIL Incongruities are galore in the Bible. Robin Lane Fox, Emeritus Fellow of New College, Oxford, and Reader in Ancient History, in his book “Unauthorised Version — (of Bible)” looks at the book from a...
Stand With Stan Now!
-*Fr. Cedric Prakash SJ It is more than three weeks now: on the night of 8 October 2020, the 83-year-old Jesuit Fr Stan Swamy was taken into custody by the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) from his residence in...
PRESENT AND FUTURE IMPACT OF COVID ON OUR LIVES – A CONJECTURE
Cover photo: Streets and famous landmarks are deserted as cities go into lockdown. Ballet dancer and performer Ashlee Montague dances in an empty Times Square in New York, which has become an epicentre of the disease. Isaac Gomes writes from...
EXCEL: not by odious comparison, but by FACTS! Doctors, nurses posts lie vacant in states even as COVID-19 rages across India!
Cover photo: Health workers collectng swab at KRTC Bus Stand in Bengaluru (Photo: ShriramBN/ EPS) By Rajesh Asnani,Vineet Upadhyay,Rajesh Kumar Thakur THE NEW INDIAN EXPRESS 27th October 2020 The most populous state Uttar Pradesh, which has the fifth highest number...
Pope Francis pelted by an avalanche of ?? for Clarity! “I stood up for that”(Civil unions) said Pope. Did he create confusion or clarity?
https://youtu.be/kcm-o8wdGR4 https://twitter.com/i/status/1320039950168018944 IS OUR WELL-MEANING POPE putting homosexual and civil unions on same footing or raising civil unions to the state of a new sacrament of marriage? In any case, groups of youth below his window at St.Peter’s...
THE EUCHARIST— THE DRAMA BEHIND THE CURTAIN
VARGHESE PAMPLANIL I have gone through the introduction of Dr. James Kottoor on the write up “Eucharist Ceremony” by George Nedumparambil. By any yardstick, George, being a non-Italian is no Latino; I am no Syro-Malabarian either. Both of...
Is Death the Be-all and End-all of all humans? Death, the most Fundamental question!
By Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev Speaking Tree Times of India – Editorial Page 21 October 2020 Note: For a different thinking, read another opinion piece at the end of this article. But please read Sadguru first with due diligence....
‘Fratelli Tutti’: Papal dreams or Vatican diversion?
Cover image: (Unsplash/Matthew Waring) Pope Francis' latest Encyclical Fratelli Tutti meaning “all brothers and sisters” has made several news headlines. It is particularly directed at heads of nations, leaders and social thinkers. Church Citizens' Voice has published two timely articles on...
“What the Dickens are Traditions?”
TRADITION, WHOSE TRADITION PLEASE? Varghese Pamplanil What the Dickens are traditions? This is with reference to Mr.Joseph Mani’s excellent exposition on tradition. Webster’s Encyclopaedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language defines “tradition” as the handing down of...
Please read carefully the five October Postings! Just to say “Thank You” to all!
And a guide to 5 important Oct. Postings in CCV james kottoor For the kind attention of our CCV readers: From the first week of October CCV published many, too many, gripping articles, too much for our readers to find...
Pope Francis keeps cleaning up his stable – Woman close to Vatican cardinal arrested in corruption probe
Cover image: Cardinal Angelo Becciu talks to journalists during press conference in Rome, Friday, Sept. 25, 2020. (Credit: Gregorio Borgia/AP.) CRUX 14 October 2020 Nicole Winfield Pope Francis is relentlessly yet quietly carrying on with the clean-up operation of Vatican...
TRADITION – WHOSE TRADITION PLEASE?
Joseph Mani Pope Francis is undoubtedly the most liberal Pope during the last half century. When he was asked if he would allow Catholic priests to be married, he said “Never, it goes against all...
“Pearls of Wisdom”-“Fratelli Tutti (All Brothers)”- Social Encyclical of Pope Francis – His Sublime Thoughts
Varghese Pamplanil Mr Varghese Pamplanil an erudite writer and a free thinker, has done it once again. He has done what no one – at least none in the Indian Church Hierarchy – has ventured upon: He...
Clergy Sex: Crisis or Constant?
In the Picture: Detail of painting "The Missionary's Adventures" by Jean-Georges Vibert. circa 1883 (Metropolitan Museum of Art) New book examines clergy sexual abuse in the wide lens of history By Thomas P. Doyle, Oct 10, 2020 & The corrupter of boys: Sodomy,...
U.S. Catholicism: Varghese Pamplanil – Letter to the Editor
The reproducing of the article of Bill McCormick S.J. in CCV seems rather irrelevant in the Indian context. In which manner, the Kerala Catholics, a minuscule segment of the Indian population, by and large, an uninformed lot and uninterested on matters not right under...
Paswan was a Dalit leader! Ram Vilas Paswan: A grassroots politician-par-excellence no more!
Murukesh TimesnowNews 8 October 2020 Ram Vilas Paswan was one of those rare old-guard politicians who was held in high regards across party lines. While he was part of the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government way back in...
‘Divide and Rule’ is the way in Politics! Anti-Catholicism is real, it’s turning Catholics against one another
Can Catholics be real Americans? This question has vexed many of us since 1776.Photo by Jon Sailer/Christoph Schmid on Unsplash (composite by America) Present Catholicism, the Constantenean, is ‘Oximoron’. It is now being replaced by the Real Universal, including all...
Only one goal: become caring, sharing brothers & sisters! A summary of the Pope’s new encyclical on ‘human fraternity’
Cover photo: Courtesy PETE BAKLINSKI / LIFESITENEWS LifeSiteNews 5 Oct 2020 DOROTHY CUMMINGS MCLEAN and JOHN-HENRY WESTEN Fratelli Tutti promotes ‘global governance’ when it comes to migration, says there’s a need to prevent the United Nations 'from being delegitimized,' and doubles down on the Pope's...