LIFE AFTER DEATH – NO REST EVEN IN PIECES?
Joseph Mani Introduction Age, we are told, is just a number. But as I grow older I find that age also means loss of memory, an ache here, a pain there and inflexible and creaky bones. ...
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How to liberate India from our blind leaders? Desperate people tell leaders: Go!
TJS George, the outspoken columnist in The Telegraph said what others hesitated to state openly: "It's best to state this simply," said the Kolkata daily. "Narendra Modi needs to go. Amit Shah needs to go. Ajay Mohan Bisht, aka Yogi Adityanath,...
Happy and humbled to be a Jesuit!
*Fr Cedric Prakash SJ 31 July 2021 A thirteen- fourteen-year-old has many dreams! That’ s an impressionable age; at the cusp of finishing school. It is also a time when one tastes a different kind of ‘freedom’: to...
Dictators resort to Pegasus to silence critics & crush opposition!
Pegasus spyware is just the latest tool autocrats are using to stay in power! George Monbiot, in the Guardian, Tue 27 Jul 2021. From silencing opponents to spying on citizens, the world’s authoritarians are refining a strategy for perpetual rule! A protest in...
Canceling Jesus! By Fr. Michael P. Orsi,
in Lifesite, Fri Jul 9, 2021. Pic. SHUTTERSTOCK.COM Jesus was a thorn in the side of the major establishment players of his day. They 'cancelled' him because of it.esu. Of course one may easily agree with the Maxim: “Corruption of he BEST...
To serve the hungry, the hurt, needy is the noblest! x More than 400 priests & nuns have died of Covid-19!
By Robin Gomes, in Indian Currents, Delhi Note: james kottoor: Even as India continues to reel under the unrelenting waves of Covid-19 infections, averaging 4,000 deaths each day, the virus is also taking a heavy toll on the country’s Catholic...
The Sister Lucy case shows why exclusive religious laws cannot be allowed to subvert spirit of Indian Constitution
Cover photo: Sister Lucy Kalapura. (Credit: ieMalayalam) Valson Thampu writes: That a nun should work all her active life, only to be cast away without a rupee, falls short even of the crudest idea of justice. THE INDIAN EXPRESS...
THE DISTURBING IMPLICATIONS OF THE CUSTODIAL DEATH OF FR STAN SWAMY: MORE TO COME
THE TELEGRAPH CALCUTTA 15 July 2021 Anup Sinha (Former professor of Economics, IIM Calcutta) Fr Stan Lourduswamy’s death on 5th July has evoked spontaneous pain, frustration and criticism, from all quarters including the international forum, of the Union...
World press blame Central command, not States! Renewed Covid spike: Where Did Kerala Go Wrong?
Cover photo: International departure passengers at Rapid PCR testing centre at Terminal-3 of Kochi airport. (Photo | EPS) THE NEW INDIAN EXPRESS By Unnikrishnan S Express News Service 8 July 2021 Steady rise in Covid cases over past two weeks puts...
Indians (Keralites demanding dowry) Hypocritres? Menace of dowry ingrained in Indian tradition’
By Anand Neelakantan, 04th July 2021, in New Indian Express There could be no people on earth who are bigger hypocrites than Indians when it comes to how we treat women. The obnoxious system of dowry has ruined the lives of many...
July 3rd and July 4th (Thoroona & US Democracy)!
By Michael Sean Winters, in NCR, Jul 2, 2021 In the history of the United States, there are times when the passing of a single year has witnessed enormous, and often threatening, changes Barber).Fireworks appear above the White House North...
How to fight for the full Truth? There is freedom, But no Mercy!
By T J S George, in New Indian Express, 27th June 2021 People are getting arrested as in the days of Indira Gandhi’s Emergency. Student activists Natasha Narwal, and Devangana Kalita outside Tihar prison, after a court ordered their immediate release in...
Rather put your faith in Jesus! Don’t put your faith in the bishops’ conference!
by NCR Editorial Staff, Jun 29, 2021 Msgr. Jeffrey Burrill, general secretary of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, right, reads a message to Pope Francis June 16, at the bishops' conference headquarters in Washington on the opening day of the...
Let New Day of Joy & Peace dawn through change! – Pope Francis
Pope Francis Supports James Martin’s Controversial ‘LGBT’Ministry! Alejandro Bermudez, in/CNAVatican June 27, 2021. Father Martin's ministry has become increasingly controversial because of his incremental departure from Catholic doctrine!(L) Father James Martin alongside Pope Francis. (photo: Kerry Weber/Wikipedia). A picture tells 100 times...
TOWARDS INDIAN CHRISTIAN DAY: 3 July 2021
* Fr. Cedric Prakash SJ Since several years, 3 July has been a significant day for the Christians of India. It is the Feast of St Thomas the Apostle – one of the twelve disciples of Jesus. He...
India’s first Sr. Editor of Kolkatta Herald 71 says goodbye, God bless!
Sr. Caridad was from Bharanaganam-Palai Diocese! james kottoor Sister Caridad Paramundayil 71, the only woman to edit India’s first Catholic weekly, Herald, who had spent years to rehabilitate sex workers, died of cardiac arrest August 17 in Kolkata, eastern India. Sister Cardidad...
Former Justice Michael Saldanha Prods the Vatican to withdraw Sr Lucy’s Expulsion Order
Cover image: Justice Michael F. Saldanha THE TELEGRAPH CALCUTTA 19th June 2021 K.M. Rakesh Michael F. Saldanha, former justice of Bombay and Karnataka High Courts, has urged the Vatican to withdraw confirmation of the expulsion of Sister Lucy...
India’s Resurgence of COVID-19: Urgent Actions Needed
Cover photo: Copyright © 2021 Reuters/Navesh Chitrakar THE LANCET 12 June 2021 The Lancet Citizen's Commission on Reimagining India's Health System has made eight recommendations to ramp up India's health services and to sustain the common man during a...
Don’t use communion as a political weapon!
Vatican warns US bishops: Don’t deny Biden communion – BY: MATTERS INDIA, JUNE 15, 2021 TAGGED: ABORTION, AMERICAN BISHOPS, AMERICAN CHURCH, COMMUNION, PRESIDENT BIDEN Don’t mix religion and politics, is the central message of the article below. Communion to a Catholic, believing and...
Kerala Nun Who Protested Against Rape Accused Bishop Has To Leave Convent
A collage of Sister Lucy (Via Facebook) and Pope Francis (AFP) NDTV 14 June 2021 Reported by Sneha Mary Koshy Vatican rejects Sister Lucy's third appeal against explusion from her congregation. Sister Lucy was expelled in August 2019 for...
