Category: Christian World

    *Fr. Cedric Prakash SJ 19 May 2018 The ‘natak’ in Karnataka, since the results of the recently-held elections to the State Assembly  were announced on 15 May, was a drama which played out for almost a week and...

By Junno Arocho Esteves, Catholic News Service, Courtesy: NCR May 18, 2018 Vatican City — Every bishop in Chile offered his resignation to Pope Francis after a three-day meeting at the Vatican to discuss the clerical sexual abuse scandal. Note:...

Cover image: Karnataka Governor Vajubhai Vala inviting the BJP to form government day before yesterday and allowing Yeddyurappa to take oath yesterday (courtesy The Indian Express)   Readers of CCV can read below, a very incisive editorial in the Telegraph...

  PRESS RELEASE   KANPUR 16TH MAY: The Kanpur Nagrik Manch (KNM) has expressed shock and dismay at the collapse of an under construction flyover near Varanasi Cantt station yesterday, in which several people lost their lives or were seriously...

  Varghese Pamplanil gives his feedback on: Corruption is a social sin – Article by Amado Picardal, Manila, Philippines.   The article above set me thinking.   According to Webster’s Encyclopaedic Unabridged Dictionary, the word ‘corrupt’ means: guilty of dishonest...

Given below is a  report from the ‘Horse's Mouth’ (from Inside the Vatican) and therefore most reliable. This is CCV comment on it. The report  is about the concluding part of the clerical sex abuse going on for too long...

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1x_7jVrOTmjWycWPd2M-vMCe3s9CfZsEi Isaac Gomes reports from Kolkata Cover image: Chief Guest Mr John Rafi and other distinguished guests at the Sit & Draw and Tattoo-making Competitition on World Communications Day at St Xavier's Primary School, Kolkata. Sunday 13th May was indeed...

THE HINDU NEW DELHI, MAY 13, 2018 Devesh K. Pandey   Note:  It is election time, state  level, Karnataka results in the process of counting and considered to be the semifinal to the National elections in 2019. It is at these...

  *Fr. Cedric Prakash SJ 13th May 2018 Days come and go; and sometimes, they ‘fly’ so fast! Some days are certainly ‘extra special’. Today Sunday 13 May 2018 has been one of those days. As one sits back and...

It is 4.30 a.m.and I have woken up suddenly from a disturbed sleep in a humid room after a  hot night, on hearing some howling similar to the one heard sporadically inhabited Arabian desert calling followers of a faith, that evolved...

*Fr. Cedric Prakash SJ   Here is a wonderful article on World Communication Day which is observed all over the world in the Catholic Church on the Sunday before Pentecost Sunday.  This year it falls tomorrow i.e. 13th of May....

  LA CROIX INTERNATIONAL Father Amado Picardal Manila – Philippines May 11, 2018 Philippine government workers join the observance of International Anti-Corruption Day in Manila in 2012. (Photo by Jimmy Domingo/ucanews.com)   Corruption has been likened to a cancer that...

  # chhotebhai About a dozen hapless children have been killed in the recent past by feral dogs in Sitapur district, adjoining Lucknow in U.P. Not so long ago elderly women in Kerala were also killed in like manner.  ...

Cover photo: Karnataka Assembly election 2018: Sanjiv Kumar, Chief Electoral Officer for Karnataka, informed that the state EC has recovered 9,746 Electors Photo Identity Card (EPIC) from an apartment in Bengaluru's Jalahalli area. Photo: @ANI -*Fr. Cedric Prakash SJ Fr...

Cover Image: Former prime minister Manmohan Singh addresses a press conference in Rajkot on Thursday. Photo Bengaluru: Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday accused the Modi Government of punishing the common man by not passing on the benefits of...

The CCV article on the rising number of Syro-Malabar (SM) saints already cobbled up and in the assembly line, made me to look for the number of saints in Roman Catholic Church. I was virtually knocked out of my senses...

  The age of darkness is upon us!   Sir, This is a response to the article with the captioned title of T. J. S. George in CCV dated 30th April.   When we encounter ‘Darkness at Noon’ on a...

PIYUSH SRIVASTAVA The Telegraph, Calcutta 5th May 2018 Cover Image: UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath eats at a Dalit home in Pratapgarh District in Uttar Pradesh on 23 April 2018 (PTI)   The report in today's Telegraph Calcutta is self-explanatory,...

  Raping Mother India   Sir, CCV has done a yeoman service by publishing the above-captioined incisive article of Cedric Prakash SJ. Let me offer my humble  appreciation to the author. The article should be read by each and every...

  Reuters in Rome Wed 2 May 2018   Whistleblowers have private Vatican meeting with pontiff Survivors want deeds to match words to tackle abuse ‘epidemic’   Cover image: Bishop Juan Barros attends his first Mass at the Cathedral of...