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Stop Saint-making Please! Please!!

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...

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Endogamy in Kottayam open Debate

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...

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Stand up or perish – Varghese Pamplany on present day Church

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...

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Donald Trump is uniquely unfit to be president – Paul Thornton,

 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...

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Eparchy in Chennai? Syro Malabar Rite church and Chennai

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”,...

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God did not create us to remain crushed by sin, Pope says

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...

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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...

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US Religious Commission denied visa for India

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...

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Dialogue only way forward, bishops told 

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...

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Vatican newspaper essays say women should preach at Mass 

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...