Is this the year of ‘Achhe Din’?
New Year Musings for India By Sidharth Bhatia, in Free Press Journal, Jan 01, 2016 (Note: It is all about the Achhe Din promised one and a half years ago by Modiji and the prospects of it arriving any time...
New Year Musings for India By Sidharth Bhatia, in Free Press Journal, Jan 01, 2016 (Note: It is all about the Achhe Din promised one and a half years ago by Modiji and the prospects of it arriving any time...
Young black men killed by US police at highest rate in year of 1,134 deaths By Jon Swaine, Oliver Laughland, Jamiles Lartey and Ciara McCarthy, in the Guardian, Thursday 31 December 2015 (Note: We wish a Happy New Year 2016...
New Year Greetings to all Readers and Friends of CCV from its Editors! dr.james kottoor, Joseph Mattappally, Zach Nedunkanal May heavenly joy, peace, serenity and tenderness that descended on the silent and holy night, befriend you, protect you, comfort you with...
By Kate Veik. Washington D.C., Dec 30, 2015 / 10:04 am (CNA).- Of the countless Catholic couples who have come through Father T.G. Morrow's office in Washington D.C. for marriage counseling, two remain imprinted in the priest's mind even today. In many...
Cardinal Gracias favors Martyr status for Kandhamal victims Published in Matters India, Story By: Santosh Digal (Note: After speaking up for the Lesbians Bombay’s Cardinal Gracias is proving once again that his ears are very much attuned to various ground...
By Matt Hadro. Berryville, Va., Dec 27, 2015 / 05:20 pm (CNA).- Years before Pope Francis’ recent ecology encyclical was published, a Trappist monastery in Virginia went back to its spiritual roots by embracing environmental stewardship. “This really is a re-founding,” Fr....
Fr. Nobi Ambookkan, vicar of Ollur church The recent events at the Ollur parish in the diocese of Trissur ought to be an eye opener for all parish priests and bishops in Kerala. The church has to pay to...
By Adelaide Mena. Pittsburgh, Pa., Dec 26, 2015 / 04:47 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Nestled in a sleepy neighborhood in the hills rising over Pittsburgh lies a small chapel. Inside St. Anthony’s Chapel lies a piece from the Crown of Thorns, a...
by Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith taken from Catholic Herald (Curtsy – The Laitytude) There are profoundly differing visions of God in the world, and these dictate the sort of societies that we have built for ourselves Over at the National Review, the leading conservative...
Story By: Lissy Maruthanakuzhy, Matters India reporter When I first met Fr Joseph Maurus Ferrero in 1980s, I had already read two of his books. So, my first question to him was: “How did you start writing?” He answered casually, but...
(Story: Matters India editor) When one thinks about Christmas preparations, it is the making of the crib that tops the list of priorities. Some have a traditional crib, a sort of family heirloom, while others make a different one every...
By Kevin J. Jones. Washington D.C., Dec 21, 2015 / 12:02 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The numbers of people without a religious affiliation are increasing in some countries. But some demographers project that the global population will be more religious, not less, for...
24 December 2015 SANAL EDAMARUKU I write this message to you from Helsinki, the capital of Finland. The Finnish equivalent of the major Christmas myth Santa Claus is joulupukki, who has his origin in the pre-Christian Nordic shaman tradition of...
Swami Snehananda Jyoti Personality generally means those qualities that describe an individual. Gordon Allport, a well-known personality psychologist, who extensively studied personality of individuals, their traits and characteristics, defined personality as “the dynamic organization within the individual of those psychophysical...
Pope outlines 24 virtues Collaborators need to work in the Curia ANDREA TORNIELLI, In Vatican Insider, 21/12/2015 Pope Francis meets heads of dicasteries for the traditional Christmas greetings, making an indirect reference to Vatileaks 2: reform is to go ahead...
Happy Christmas & Heavenly Peace to You CCV Readers & Well Wishers! Christmas is God befriending us In Jesus through His loving embrace Jesus is Emmanuel, God with us in loving embrace “You are my Friends, I have chosen you...
This human Christmas tree broke the record set in Honduras last year that has as many as 2,945 people. Thiruvananthapuram: UCAN Kerala has set a new Guinness World Record for the 'largest human Christmas tree' in the world. According to...
dr. james kottoor The letter below is from Dr. John Wijngaards, an International Theologian and a great promotor of the cause of priesthood for women in the Church. The letter is addressed to the editor in Chief of CCV....
A Christmas message from Mahatma Gandhi (Note: Our friend Fr Dr. Anthoniraj Thumma from Hyderabad, Executive director of Ecumenism forwarded this timely message to us. Feast days does not mean fasting days are over. No pain, no gain,...
(In the pic: Christopher Hitchens, the journalist and literary critic New York Times / Redux / eyevine) Ever since Tom Lehrer recorded his imperishable anti-Christmas ditty all those years ago, the small but growing minority who view the end of December with...