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IS chops kidnapped priest

(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...

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Wife, mother, nun, founder of religious Order

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...

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Catholic moral theologians scan Asian reality

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...

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Godmen and Women – a Shame

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...

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Christians rally for equal dalit rights

(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)...

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Juggling Catholicism and indigenous culture in India

(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...

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The German bishops have declared independence from Rome?

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...

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Tryst with Destiny

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...

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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...

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Some Secret Documents from Rome

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...

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Cardinal Kasper Revolution spreads (II)

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...

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Cardinal Kasper Revolution spreads – Synod on Family, Walter Ka

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...

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Yearbook recounts life inside Vatican walls

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...