Thiruvananthapuram (UCAN): Zacharias Mar Theophilus, senior suffragan metropolitan of the Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church, died on Sunday at a hospital here, church officials said. He was 77. The bishop, who headed the Chengannur-Mavelikera diocese of the church, attended the...
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 The New Indian Express Editorial, 26th December 2015 Prime Minister Narendra Modi never ceases to surprise. If his presence in Kabul on Friday morning ruffled feathers in Islamabad, within hours, he sprang a pleasant surprise on the latter. In...
In the pic: Most Reverend Justin Welby: "Today's Herods – Isis and their like around the world – propose false apocalypses" From BBC News, UK, Dec.25/2015 (Note: May be history repeats itself. Otherwise how are we to explain two terrorist...
(Story by Santhosh Digal – Matters India) New Delhi: The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) is preparing a policy for Dalits. A committee of bishops has almost completed a draft policy to present at the next CBCI biennial plenary...
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...
Thiruvananthapuram (Matters India): The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP, Indian people’s party), considered to be pro-Hindu, is trying to win various Christian denominations in Kerala. The southern Indian state is getting ready to elect its 140-member legislative assembly in 2016. The...
Catholic clergy needs to evolve to keep up and meet new challenges as society changes. UCAN: Mumbai The world is at a tipping point and so is India with a majoritarian government in power with another idea of what India is....
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...
by Elise Harris. Vatican City, Dec 25, 2015 / 08:38 am (CNA/EWTN News).- In his annual Christmas “Urbi et Orbi” blessing Pope Francis prayed for all those affected by violence, conflict and poverty throughout the world, asking that they rejoice in salvation...
Future canonization of a favorite nun, persecution, violence main highlights for the church in 2015. New Delhi (UCAN) : The year 2015 saw cases of persecution against Christians, including the rape of two nuns, with no concrete action taken against...
Shillong (Matters India): Christians in Meghalaya Thursday celebrated Christmas with fervour and spirit, exchanging greetings and gifts with friends and relatives. Hindus also joined in the celebrations in this Christian-dominated northeastern state to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. Bishops and...
Vatican (Matters India): Pope Francis, in his annual Christmas homily, has warned the world’s 1.2 billion Roman Catholics against being “intoxicated” by possessions . He called for more sobriety in a world obsessed by “consumerism and hedonism, wealth and extravagance”, BBC...
By Ann Schneible. Vatican City, Dec 24, 2015 / 02:26 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The joy we receive from Christ’s birth has the power to counteract doubt and indifference, in a world that is “merciless to the sinner and lenient to the sin,”...
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...
Dr Suresh Mathew Knocking at the door of every inn on a cold winter night a Middle Eastern couple over 2000 years ago sought a room for the birth of their child. The pregnant young woman on the verge of...
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...
Parliament criticized for passing law in haste. New Delhi: (UCAN) Indian church agencies said lowering the age so that a child can be tried as an adult will not curb juvenile crime. "Lowering the age will not help. If a...
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What Have You Done?
"I was hungry, and you formed a humanities club, and discussed my hunger.
I was imprisoned, and you crept of quietly to your chapel in the cellar and prayed for my release.
I was naked, and in your mind you debated the morality of my appearance.
I was sick, and you knelt and thanked God for your good health.
I was homeless, and you preached to me the spiritual shelter of the love of God.
I was lonely, and you left me alone to pray for me.
You seem so holy, so close to God:
But I am still very hungry, and lonely and cold.
So where have your prayers gone? What have they done?
What does it profit a man to go through his book of prayers, when the rest of the world is crying for help.
-Bob Rawland
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