REPUBLICS AND REPUBLICS
Varghese Pamplanil The Flip-board of 26th instant carried a very good article by Ms. Steena Joy...
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A critique of Pope John Paul II Institutes! New JPII Institute Professors Question Church Orthodoxy on Homosexuality,Contraception
Cover image: Fathers Maurizio Chiodi (L) and Pier Davide Guenzi (R) (photo: YouTube) Edward Pentin Blogs September 13, 2019 Both Fathers currently teach moral theology at the University of Northern Italy in Milan, and both are well known for their questioning of moral...
A wise man Changes views! Guardian view on India’s farming revolt: a bitter harvest!
Editorial in The Guardian, 2021 Mon 25 Jan 04. There’s a growing backlash against Narendra Modi’s autocratic tendencies and the plutocrat donors who fund his party ‘Mr Modi takes decisions without forewarning and expects them to be rubber-stamped by a pliant legislature.’ Photograph: Biju...
Mamma Mia? Show the way to Paradise
Varghese Pamplanil The butthole for sex A well preserved 120 million year old fossil found in Liaoning province in northeastern China...
Gender Bias: India no place for women Farmers! The Earth And Her Daughters
BY PREETHA NAIR, IN OUTLOOK, JAN, 25, 2021, FEBRUARY 01, 2021. Missing in common images of the "kisan", not counted by economists, not found on property papers. Recent events put the focus on the silent workforce of our farms. Nikki Tomar, 24, Farmer-Woman, Homemaker,...
Missing cohesion
Monday, 25 January 2021 | Pioneer The latest attempts by the Congress to paper over differences raise more questions than these answer. The following is hard-hitting, plain-speaking opinion piece from the Pioneer! Read it and react, for or against this...
Public office in Church 3 years? Pope Francis signals again he may ‘step down’ from being pope
This is one of many times since his election in 2013 that Pope Francis has spoken about stepping down from his post as Vicar of Christ on earth. This report brings into focus Pope Francis expressed his desire in the...
Dreaming up a little one-world home? Vatican News links UN day celebrating religious pluralism to influence of Pope Francis
Cover photo: Pope Francis addresses the General Assembly during his visit to the United Nations headquarters in New York, U.S., Sept. 25, 2015. Luiz Rampelotto/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images LIFESITE NEWS 21 January 2021 Jeanne Smits Paris Correspondent The...
Make Farmer a competitor in the Market! Bolstering Corporates was intent of farmlaws!
Cover image: When the Supreme Court finally does decide to hear the farm laws matter, for many petitions that deal with equally contentious decisions taken by the current government continue hanging fire in the apex court. (PTI) ASIAN AGE 18...
Shocking, hurting, mean attacks on ‘Bergoglio’! Archbishop Viganò reacts to Pope Francis saying all must take Covid Vaccine!
Considerations by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò on the promotion of the vaccine by the Holy See. Fri Jan 15, 2021 LifeSite News 14 January 2021 I could not belive it until I read it on LifeSite on...
Imitate Vivekananda & Francis Papa! Swami Vivekananda’s thought is as relevant to India’s future as it was in its past
Swami Vivekananda’s birthday is celebrated as National Youth Day in India. (File Photo) THE INDIAN EXPRESS Prahlad Singh Patel 13 January 2021 Swami Vivekananda combined thinking of different religions, communities and traditions. His thoughts inspire liberation from inertia. ...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR – THE NEXUS BETWEEN RELIGION, FUNDAMENTALISM AND COMMUNALISM
The Webinar in Kolkata on 8th January 2021 on the topic “Role of Religion Amidst Growing Communalism and Fundamentalism” is very relevant in the Indian context. The worldly wise and theologically primed participants seemed to be shy of...
Don’t equate Republic day with Independence day!
Republic Day, time to reclaim our basic rights! Aakar Patel, in Asian Age, Jan 12, 2021. None of the rights and liberties that the Constitution saw initially as being “fundamental” are present in the original form today. We celebrate Republic Day,...
“Our ‘ghar wapsi’ only after ‘law wapsi’, Farmers! Farmers dig in heels, say ready for Bakshi in Delhi
The farmer groups have also decided to meet on January 11 to decide their next course of action, even as many leaders said they have lost hope now that any resolution could be reached even in the next round of...
PANEL DISCUSSION ON ROLE OF RELIGION AMIDST GROWING COMMUNALISM & FUNDAMENTALISM
Isaac Gomes Kolkata In John Chapter 14, Verse 27 Jesus tells his disciples: “Peace I leave you, my peace I give to you.” Amidst conflict and chaos, Covid-19 being one of them, the whole world today is desperately in...
God created Paradise & needed a caretaker: so he created the FARMER! An age of anger!
Statesman News Service, New Delhi, January 6, 2021 By all indications, the 21st century appears to be an age of rage. We are witnessing extraordinary waves of protests around the world against widening inequality and rising authoritarianism. It is understandable...
A Sign of Contradiction rather – United vs divided – locked in one? A Catholic Moment!
By Stephen P. White, in the Catholic Thing, Thursday, Jan.7, 2021 “United or divided states?” – a sign of contradiction — at once a compliment and combat note to the Catholic writer Stephen White – is the first thought that...
Be a drop to drill a HOLE in stony Silence! Brides of Jesus? –
in The Statesman, New Delhi | January 5, 2021 Whether a woman should live sexually exploited against her will lifelong, is not a religious issue. It is a serious human rights and civilizational issue. No religious law should stand that runs...
Modi-bhakth responds to Modi-basher! Rushing to Peril? Letter to Editor
George & Varghese It is always entertaining & instructive to watch friends in happy combat, with no love lost & new insights gained! Was ‘Demonitization’ DeMon a Deamon, ‘a killing vires like Covid or a Life-savor’ is the heart of...
Be a drop to drill a HOLE in stony Silence! Brides of Jesus?
The Statesman, Kolkata January 5, 2021 VALSON THAMPU Whether a woman should live sexually exploited against her will lifelong, is not a religious issue. It is a serious human rights and civilizational issue. No religious law should stand...
