Category: Christian World

  -*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...

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...

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...

  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...

  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...

    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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

        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...

    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...

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,...

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...

    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...

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...

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...

    Varghese Pamplanil     😔😪CRY😞😪CRY😞😪CRY😞😪 MY COUNTRYMEN TILL NO MORE TEARS ARE LEFT   What an inhuman, foul, horrible,despicable,beastly deed? Can any one, with even a shred of human feeling and sense of probity, condone and live with the...

    Hille Haker 3rd October 2020   “What they don’t teach in Catholic college: Women in the priesthood and the mind of Christ”, is the descriptive title of John Wijngaards (see photo above) 216-page book, Acadian House.  He has numerous scholarly...

  Mattersindia.com 3 October 2020 By: Don Aguiar   At the root of it all is CASTE SYSTEM  in India. It is the equivalent is RACISM in US. We have been repeating it ad nausam, will never stop hammering it to...