Pope, ending synod, excoriates bishops with closed hearts Vatican City: Pope Francis, ending a contentious bishops’ meeting on family issues, on Saturday excoriated immovable Church leaders who “bury their heads in the sand” and hide behind rigid doctrine while families...
Ever since the faithful began respecting the clergy, I feel that they had been cheated by the red hats. The Rules and Regulations of Catholic Association of Bengal is a solid example of Clergy domination over the faithful. Same is the case...
Dr Suresh Mathew Let there be no mistaking. The Hindutva forces are going the whole hog to put into practice what M.S. Golwalkar, the second Sarsanghchalak of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, stated unambiguously in his book ‘We or Our Nationhood Defined’. “The...
'Forced to hang my head in shame': Former Navy chief writes open letter to President Mukherjee, PM Modi Times of India (TNN | Oct 25, 2015, 01.46 PM IST) NEW DELHI: Former Navy chief Admiral Laxminarayan Ramdas has written an open letter to...
By Elise Harris. Vatican City, Oct 24, 2015 / 04:39 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- With a two-thirds majority vote, the more than 200 bishops gathered for the Vatican's synod on the family supported Church teaching on hot-button issues such as homosexuality and communion...
New Delhi (UCAN): A church official in India said the burning to death of two dalit children was the latest in a series of atrocities against the former lower-caste group. The church "sternly condemns the sad incident," Father Z. Devasagayaraj, secretary...
Truth: Where is it? Deccan Chronicle | Francis Gonsalves | October 23, 2015, Representational image (Note: Jesus presented himself as the way, truth and life. Apostle Thomas who came to India in 52 AD called his followers: Margam Koodiyavar. Followers...
By Samanthi Dissanayake BBC News, Helsinki An Indian man who made his name exposing the "miraculous" feats of holy men as tricks has fled the country after being accused of blasphemy. Now in self-imposed exile in Finland, he fears jail...
Anglican Bishop Tim Thornton visits with Pope Francis during the synod at the Vatican. Photo courtesy of L’Ossevatore Romano Rosie Scammell Religion News Service | Oct. 22, 2015 Vatican City: Anglican Bishop Tim Thornton’s vivid purple cassock instantly marks him...
Church: Pyramidal Hierarchy or People of God? (For full text of the Pope’s speech on Synod, see: “Turn Hierarchy into Inverted Pyramid”, Oct.21/15 in Church Citizen’s Voiced (CCV), www.almayasabdam.com.) dr. james kottoor What is the Church? In the cacophony of...
By Elise Harris. Vatican City, Oct 21, 2015 / 10:17 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Despite pastoral challenges posed by divorced-and-civilly-remarried Catholics, many synod fathers are in favor of current Church teaching and practice according to a new round of small group reports. “The...
[Jesuit Fr. Thomas Reese is a senior analyst for NCR and author of Inside the Vatican: The Politics and Organization of the Catholic Church. His email address is treesesj@ncronline.org. | Oct. 20, 2015, in NCR (Note: The two knotty...
Papal Speech on Synod – to minister = ‘foot washing’ like Jesus (Note: Given below is Pope Francis’ mind-boggling and momentous address on October 17/15, in Paul VI Audience Hall, Vatican City at the Commemorative Ceremony for the 50th Anniversary...
By Elise Harris. Vatican City, Oct 20, 2015 / 10:26 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Cardinal Wilfred Napier says the highly controversial midterm report from last year's synod gave weight to issues discussed by only “two or three” people, and was unseen by most...
Pope calls for healthy decentralization of the Church Francis delivered a sleeper bombshell of a speech over the weekend kicking off the final week of the synod in which he called for nothing less than a revolution in the concept...
Rome (Matters India): Sporting history was made in Rome at the weekend as an all-Muslim cricket team played against St Peter’s Cricket Club, comprising Catholic seminarians. St Peter’s won by four runs at the closely contested match at Rome’s Capannelle...
By Elise Harris. Vatican City, Oct 18, 2015 / 03:45 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Sunday Pope Francis canonized four new saints, whose greatest legacy he said was their tireless imitation of Jesus in humble service to others, which is something each of...
I owe the most happy event of my life to the Missionaries of Charity (MoC). The joy of the moment that came about two decades ago, when a sister from the MoC had put a four-month old sleeping baby in...
New York (Matters India): Setting an example of inter-faith understanding, the Sikh community in Salt Lake City has organised a community kitchen for nearly 7,000 attendees at the 2015 Parliament of World’s Religions underway in Utah, a media report said....
Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service, in NCR, Oct. 17/15 (Note: This piece of Pope Francis’ speech, which explains how to live “Synodality” is the very core of Christian living for all from Pope at the top to the pauper Lazarus...
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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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