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Poverty Must Be Eradicated!

  -*Fr. Cedric Prakash SJ   It is 17 October and the world community once again commemorates the ‘International Day for the Eradication of Poverty’. This year marks the 25th anniversary of the declaration by the General Assembly, (in its resolution...

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WE TOO – HUM BHI!

            # chhotebhai     The “Me Too” moment seems to have arrived in India, with long suppressed secrets of sexual harassment tumbling out of the dark recesses of memory, to shame and shock the mighty – be they journalists,...

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M.J. Akbar should have resigned Or else, asked to go

Untenable: on M.J. Akbar – ​EDITORIAL IN THE HINDU, OCTOBER 15, 2018.  Note: Given below are two editorials from the Hindu: one on M.J. Akbar and another on Mulakkal, both in connection with sex abuse and patriarchy, in civil society and...

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ROMERO: SAINT FOR OUR TIMES

*Fr. Cedric Prakash SJ     On Sunday 14 October, Pope Francis will canonize seven women and men as saints of the Catholic Church. Each of these have proved outstanding in holiness and contributed in significant ways to help make...

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Youth synod of old men!

Cover image: Pope Francis talks with Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri (second left) as they leave after addressing the opening of the Synod of Bishops on Oct. 3, 2018 at the Vatican. (Photo by Andreas Solaro/AFP)   LA CROIX INTERNATIONAL Fr. Myron...

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Dangerous saints for desperate times

Photo credit : Julie Lonneman   By National Catholic Reporter Editorial Staff Oct 12, 2018   Note: Pope Paul VI became famous and notorious for two things: 1.  His arch conservative birth control encyclical and 2. Opposition to liberation theology of...