Opinion
The Church and Family
Opinion | People's Edit | Joseph M Thohrii | 22-Feb-2023
The Catholic vision describes the family as a community of life and love. Family life is sacred and its activities are holy because God’s love is revealed and communicated through these activities. As a result, families can come to believe that God dwells.....
The Power of Words
Opinion | Editorial | John S. Shilshi | 12-Feb-2023
An organization of repute once reached out to 13 people to write articles on different contemporary topics for their annual publication. Being an important project, each writer was briefed carefully about the word count, deadline, editorial vetting of wor.....
Holistic Education for Peace in Northeast India
Opinion | Articles | Paul Lelen Haokip | 12-Feb-2023
Northeast India boasts of rich biodiversity, but peace is still a longing. Insurgency, inter-tribal hostilities, boundary disputes, and trust deficits abound galore. Inhabitants of these eight states of India are vulnerable to media influence, political p.....
Indian Synod: Forward or Backward?
Opinion | Articles | Chhotebhai | 12-Feb-2023
Synod, what’s that? Are we suffering from collective amnesia? The next round, the Continental one, is slated for 24th – 27th February. For Asia it will be held in Bangkok, Thailand. If I correctly recall, our Asian bishops had earlier met in Pattaya, anot.....
Immunological Thinking
Opinion | Articles | Victor Ferrao | 12-Feb-2023
Humans have gone through several ages of affliction. There was a microbial age that ended with the discovery of antibiotics. Thanks to immunological science and technology, we have left it behind although covid-19 virus threatened to usher it again. The.....
A Spiritual Carnival at Jakhama
Opinion | Editorial | John S. Shilshi | 18-Jan-2023
Between 13th to 16th of January 2023, the Angami village of Jakhama - a village said to have been established by the brave warrior Viken-e - was bustling with a colourful congregation of people. They were not the usual adventurous campers, who normally tr.....
Indian Dalits Still has Miles to go
Opinion | Articles | N.Leo Samuel | 18-Jan-2023
In the last week of December, a few people from Vengaivayal, a village in Pudukottai district of Tamil Nadu in southern India, were treated for upset stomachs and vomiting at the local government hospital. This continued for a week with more villagers rep.....
Vikas - Vishwas –Vilash – Vinash
Opinion | Articles | Chhotebhai | 18-Jan-2023
There has been a progression, or rather regression, of Vs over the last week. For those unfamiliar with Hindi, let me first do a literal translation of the 4 Vs in this title – Vikas (Development), Vishwas (Faith), Vilas (Luxury) and Vinash (Destruction)......
A Reflection on the Importance of offering Suffrages
Opinion | Articles | Penny Rose Chinir | 04-Dec-2022
According to the Catholic faith, suffrages are intercessory prayers in the form of holy mass and other prayer services, beseeching the repose of the departed souls. For example in the FMA family – a family of over 12,000 nuns across the globe, of which th.....
Guarding Against Fake News
Opinion | Editorial | John S. Shilshi | 04-Dec-2022
We live in a an era where social media rules the roost, when day in and day out, Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter, Instagram etc. are literally flooded with news and information of all hues, making it extremely difficult for users to understand which informati.....
Moving Back to the Middle Ages
Opinion | Articles | Thomas Menamparampil | 04-Dec-2022
Tagore dreamt of an India where the citizens would have the courage to hold their “heads high”. Martin Luther King dreamt of a homeland that would give equal respect to every citizen. An Iranian composer longs for a civilized culture in her country where.....
Need to Uphold Human Rights in our Homes
Opinion | Articles | Myron J Pereira | 04-Dec-2022
For almost all of human history, most men and women had no rights, only duties. You had to be born rich and powerful, a member of the "right" caste, race, class, sex, or religion to have rights at all. And even then, the whim of a local monarch or the mis.....
Advent Adventure
Opinion | Articles | Chhotebhai | 04-Dec-2022
The Advent season is upon us. It is a preparation for Christmas, depending on our priorities. The Hindi word for Advent is Aagman. It is the same word used at airports for Arrivals. Advent means just that – the coming or arrival of somebody or thing. .....
Caring Our Mother Earth: Pathways to Conservation
Opinion | Articles | Vincent T Darlong | 07-Nov-2022
When God created the earth “God saw that it was good” (Genesis 1:18). After he created man, God has put him in the Garden of Eden to care for it (Genesis 2:15). But today, we seem to be doing just opposite to what God had intended. Instead of caring for t.....
Social Media as Tool to Evangelize the Youth
Opinion | Editorial | John S. Shilshi | 07-Nov-2022
Social Media as Tool to Evangelize the Youth With Social Media having deeply entrenched into people’s lives, particularly amongst the younger generation, there appears to be a serious contemplation on how the medium could best be put to use, by the Catho.....