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Proof of God’s Unlimited Mercy? dr. james kottoor Wrote a certain Tyler in the internet a few days ago: “But I doubt neither John Paul II’s celibacy nor his sanctity. I really don't care about his celibacy because it's always...
Published on: 3:10 pm, March 7, 2016 Story By: Mattersindia.com Shillong: It will be a red letter day in the history of Meghalaya and for Asia that the relic containing the Right Hand of Don Bosco was enthroned in the shrine of Don...
Armin Rosen | Business Insider (Times of India) | Mar 7, 2016, 08.30 AM IST In 2015, private-intelligence firm Strategic Forecasting, or Stratfor, published its Decade Forecast, in which it projects the next 10 years of global political and economic developments. While...
Published in Matters India: 10:48 pm, March 6, 2016 Story By: Editor On Sunday Pope Francis lamented the world’s indifference to the recent killing of four Missionaries of Charity, calling them the ‘martyrs of today’ and asking that Bl. Mother Teresa intercede in...
AFP Vatican City (Curtsy – OheraldO – 04/03/2016- : Vatican protocol has been rewritten to enable divorced Catholic leaders and their new spouses to be received jointly by Pope Francis, Holy See sources confirmed on Thursday. The move is unlikely to be officially...
Two Eminent Knanites thrash it out openly, frankly Dr James Kottoor
Dialogue, dialogue, dialogue! That alone is the way forward anywhere, especially in the Church. The aggrieved parties in Kottayam diocese and Church in India tried it for the last three...
P.C. on Vatican order on Delhi Settlement (Note: Since CCV is interested mainly to help parties in conflict to learn from each other to reduce disagreements, we have published the analysis of Chennai Team opposing a SM Eparchy there...
Varghese Pamplany A number of articles have appeared in CCV on the autocratic and “holier than thou” attitude of the clergy of the Catholic Church, especially in the Syro-Malabar outfit in Kerala. Another matter agitating the Christians is the perceived high rate of unemployment among them. The demand is for...
in Los Angels Times, March 5/16 (Note: “ Trump has shamefully little knowledge of the issues facing the country and the world, and a temperament utterly unsuited to the job. He is a racist and a bully, a demagogue. He has...
Los Angeles, Calif., Mar 5, 2016 / 04:10 pm (CNA).- When a juvenile inmate in a California prison wrote to Pope Francis, he did not expect a response. But he received one, in the form a Jan. 21 letter from...
In the joint pastoral letter signed by the archbishops of Delhi and Faridabad who have the common area of jurisdiction have clearly wrote that all Catholics of Syro origin in the above area should join the new SMR diocese. Basically...
P.C. Joseph (Chennai) (Note: Latin, Syromalabar(SM) and Syromalankara are the three Catholic Rites just functioning or flourishing in India. All three speak of brotherly collaboration. What often happens is brotherly “collision”,...
By Elise Harris. Vatican City, Mar 4, 2016 / 01:35 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Leading his annual penitential service on Friday, Pope Francis told attendees to stand tall and be open to forgiveness, and not to let themselves remain under the heavy burden...
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...
4 Mother Teresa nuns killed, 1 Indian Salesian priest missing in Yemen Published on: 6:54 pm, March 4, 2016 Story By: Matters India Reporter New Delhi: Four Missionaries of Charity nuns, one of them from India, were among 16 people gunned down by...
USCIRF is an independent, bipartisan US federal government commission. Posted on March 4, 2016, 3:37 PM New Delhi: India has denied visa to members of a US commission on religious freedom who wanted to discuss and assess "deteriorating" religious freedom conditions...
Details provided on caste-based discrimination within church in India. Posted on March 4, 2016, 5:06 PMDalit Catholics in India have complained to the visiting Jesuit superior general about discrimination within the church during his visit to the country. Jesuit Father...
Published on: 11:29 pm, March 3, 2016 Story By: Philip Mathew -Published in – Matters India Bangalore: The need for “dialogue” was stressed on the second day of the biennial plenary of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI). Speakers were unanimous in saying that...
Published on: 10:18 pm, March 3, 2016 Story By: Mattersindia.com A series of essays in the semiofficial Vatican newspaper is urging the Catholic Church to allow women to preach from the pulpit at Mass, a role that has been reserved almost exclusively to...
Pittsburgh, Pa., Mar 3, 2016 / 12:52 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The Bishop of Altoona-Johnstown is calling for prayers after a Pennsylvania grand jury released its report on the alleged sexual abuse of hundreds of children by priests in the diocese...