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(UCAN) Religious leaders in India have welcomed a government move to ban pornographic websites, but some also caution against a blanket ban that they say intrudes on personal freedom. The free and uncontrolled access to pornographic sites has done irreparable...
(Matters India) Dozens of kidnapped Arab Christians have been ransomed, tortured, beheaded and killed over the past year, including a priest who was chopped into pieces, in attempts to raise funds for radical Islamic terror groups and to strike fear...
August 12, (MEMORIAL OF ST. JANE FRANCES DE CHANTAL) Jane Frances was wife, mother, nun and founder of a religious community. Her mother died when Jane was 18 months old, and her father, head of parliament at Dijon, France, became...
Pope Francis greets Archbishop Blase Cupich of Chicago after a Mass marking the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican June 29. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) By David Gibson Religion News Service | Aug. 10,...
The picture above: Pope Francis and Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle of Manila arrive to celebrate Mass in Manila, Philippines, Jan. 16. At the first pan-Asian conference of Catholic moral theologians, Tagle said July 20 that Francis sees the future of...
Godmen-and-Women Have Become a Shame Editorial in The New Indian Express,12th August 2015 (The BIG question is whether there is much difference between God men in secular society and in various churches. In the Catholic church they exhibit their...
(In the pic: Protesters demand rights for dalit Christians and Muslims outside the Sacred Heart Cathedral in New Delhi, on August 10. (Photo by Ritu Sharma) Denying quotas in government jobs, education is religious discrimination, protesters say. John Dayal (UCAN)...
(In the pic:Bishop-elect Basil Bhuriya of Jhabua was named bishop July 18. The date of his ordination has not been announced.) Jhabua (UCAN):A newly appointed bishop in central India says his biggest challenge is to help Catholics in his diocese...
Panaji (Matters India): Following footsteps of the Congress government, the Bharatiya Janata Party government has decided to make it a law to give grants to ‘only’ Church-run English medium primary schools. “Let the bill come to the Assembly from the...
The German bishops have declared independence from Rome on same-sex marriage: how far will the rot spread now? (William Oddie in Catholic Herald – posted Thursday, 6 Aug 2015) Are we witnessing the beginnings of an international campaign of defiance against the Catholic moral...
On 15 August 2015 India celebrates her 69th year of Independence from the British rule. This coincides with one important news in the Herald (August 7-13): – Crucial Inauguration of the Pastoral Plan in all 57 parishes and stations of...
For more expansive synod discussions Theological Colloquium on Church Religion & Society in Africa (TCCRSA) By Joshua J. McElwee, Vatican correspondent Aug. 11, 2015, in NCR. (Note: The African Church...
Diyarbakir (Matters India): On Saturday Pope Francis approved a decree recognizing the martyrdom of Flavien-Michel Malké, a Syriac Catholic bishop who was killed in 1915 amid the Ottoman Empire’s genocide against its Christian minorities. The decision was made during an...
African bishops, theologians cry out For more expansive synod discussions Theological Colloquium on Church Religion & Society in Africa (TCCRSA) By Joshua J. McElwee, Vatican correspondent Aug. 11, 2015, in NCR. (Note: The African Church has spoken in one Voice....
Documents from controversial ‘Shadow Council’ in Rome now published Maike Hickson (Note: If liberal groups among the world’s bishops are already having shadow Councils, to sharpen their arguments to defend their considered views, the conservative groups also should be doing...
Cardinal Kasper defends Ireland’s gay ‘marriage’ decision Maike Hickson, News Analysis, May 29, 2015 (Note:What is intriguing in this report is the one day study session organized at the Grerorian University by the 3 Bishops’ conferences of Switzerland, France and...
by Elise Harris. Vatican City, Aug 9, 2015 / 06:27 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Sunday Pope Francis said the “horrific” atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are the icon of man’s destructive misuse of scientific progress, and called for an end to...
Maike Hickson, in LifeSite News, Aug.7/15 (If homosexuals, divorced and remarried, communion to the divorced etc. have been considered peripheral issues at the Extraordinary Synod, now they are occupying central stage for heated discussion and quick solution even before...
Pope gets nearly 20,000 'retweets' to become most influential world leader on Twitter. In one thick volume, Vatican offices and departments tell their own stories. The 2014 edition of the "Activity of the Holy See," released in July, runs more...
Lock Up The Doors, Time For Them To Depart Our state institutions are dilapidated, our leaders a bunch of rogues. The time for tinkering is over, drastic measures are required. Markandey Katju,...