Category: Indian Spirituality

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Old Dreams Gone, New Dreams Born

Swami Snehananda Jyoti  I left home at the age of 17 with the dream of conquering the world for Christ. I had 16 years of rigorous training with the Jesuits before being ordained a Catholic priest in the Society of...

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Morality and moralizing are different 

Published on: 12:30 am, April 4, 2016 Story By: Adolf Washington (Matters India) Bengaluru: Thirty eight years after Professor Bernard Haering came out with a three- volume ‘Free and Faithful in Christ’ a vacuum is being felt as far as a complete, consistent, coherent...

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Critique of final statement Missed a Golden Opportunity

  Plenary Assembly 32nd  of CBCI Jacob Peenikaparambil (In April issue of Indian Currents)   The CBCI statement has played safe by not making any reference to the Modi government while mentioning about the challenges. The bishops should have proposed...

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Nagpur archbishop washes feet of six women 

Published on: 1:19 am, March 26, 2016 Story By: Lissy Maruthanakuzhy – Matters India Nagpur: Archbishop Abraham Viruthakulangara of Nagpur created history by choosing six women among the 12 people for the washing of feet ritual on Holy Thursday. “In a world where women...

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CANONIZATION OF MOTHER TERESA – POSSIBLE FALLOUTS

(Note: Saints were always the best money earners for the Church. Making some one a saint was an expensive business until Pope Francis recently reversed the Vatican Laws. Otherwise, eligible saintly Christians like Servant of God Bro. Joseph Thampi of Vijayawada would...

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Malayatoor pilgrimage to go green this year

The joint effort by the government and the church is aimed at dissuading devotees from bringing plastics and disposables during the pilgrimage season. Posted on March 15, 2016, 4:22 PM Koch(UCAN)i: The Suchitwa (cleanliness) Mission of the Kerala State government has...

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Bishops, priests urged to shun extravaganza, clericalism – Isaac Gomes, Kolkata

(Note: Shri. Isaac Gomes from Kolkata writes: The recently concluded (March 9) CBCI Plenary Session at Bangalore has come up with Resolutions which might take the Laity for a pleasant surprise. For never before have all the bishops have been so unanimous on "the crying need for dialogue to solve problems";  to be more "humane"; to  be “first and...

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Bishops happy with offices, centers 

Published on: 2:20 am, March 5, 2016 Story By: Philip Mathew, Matters India reporter Bangalore: The bishops expressed appreciation after the evaluation and discussion on the reports of the various offices and centers presented at the plenary assembly of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference...