Opinion
Make Love Not War
Opinion | Articles | Chhotebhai | 15-Mar-2022
Make Love Not War As teenagers in the 1960’s we were exposed to the anti-establishment pop culture of the Beatles, and the anti-war protests of the hippies. The latter’s war cry (sic) was “Make love not war”. As I write this the Russian invasion of.....
Women Today: A tribute on International Women’s Day
Opinion | People's Edit | Joseph M Thohrii | 15-Mar-2022
“One Woman Can Change anything, Many women can change everything” -Tony Moririson In this 21st century, to be a woman in India is a challenge. Looking and studying the present scenario of women in India, she has to battle hard and fight an uncertain.....
Has Social Media Become a Necessary Evil?
Opinion | Editorial | John S. Shilshi | 15-Feb-2022
The internet has revolutionized the way human beings communicate to one another, so much so that even those who created it perhaps were not aware of the potential and its ultimate outcome. Today the world is abuzz with social media, which is the byproduct.....
Justice for women religious in the Catholic Church
Opinion | Articles | Virginia Saldanha | 15-Feb-2022
The message of Pope Francis on the day of Consecrated Life has heartened a number of women religious in India. It is based on his prayer intention for the month of February: “Let us pray for religious sisters and consecrated women, thanking them for their.....
Fire Frightening Franco: A corollary to Somebody Raped Nobody
Opinion | Articles | Chhotebhai | 15-Feb-2022
In my previous article I dwelt more on the judicial aspects of the judgement in the Franco Mulakkal rape case. The present one is based on the petition that I have submitted to Abp Anil Couto, the Metropolitan Archbishop of the Delhi ecclesiastical region.....
Keeping the House in Order
Opinion | Editorial | John S. Shilshi | 15-Jan-2022
When India became independent and subsequently gave herself one of the most comprehensive Constitutions in the world, secularism was given a place as one of the cornerstone of this document. It was so because the founding fathers of the Constitution recog.....
Former Governor & Union Minister Margaret Alva writes to Prime Minister
Opinion | Articles | Editorial Team | 15-Jan-2022
In the backdrop of increasing attacks on Christians and other minority groups in the country, a well-known Catholic leader, Mrs. Margaret Alva, had written a letter to Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, pointing out that his silence is being construed as legi.....
Contributions of the Roman Catholic Church in Mizoram in 73 Years (1947- 2020)
Opinion | Articles | Luke Sangkima | 15-Jan-2022
Introduction During December 10 – 12, 2021 the Diocese of Aizawl celebrated its Silver Jubilee. It should have been held exactly on February 7, 2021 but because of the Covid pandemic, the celebration was held on the dates noted above. The story goes lik.....
Indigenous Jesuits Priests Spearhead Mission in poverty-stricken Hazaribagh
Opinion | Articles | Bijay Kumar Minj | 15-Jan-2022
Growing up as a child in the remote and dusty fields of Hazaribagh, Santhosh Minj had no inkling that one day he would lead the mission that Australian Jesuits started there. It is no mean achievement for someone born in an ethnic Oraon family in eastern.....
Facing our Barbaric Condition
Opinion | Articles | Victor Ferrao | 15-Jan-2022
‘To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric’ writes Theodor Adorno. In the broadest sense to be barbaric means to be uncultured. Julia Kristeva tells us that the word originated in the context of Greek perception of other languages as inarticulate mumbl.....
Will Shishu Bhawan now be Renamed as Shishu Mandir?
Opinion | Articles | Chhotebhai | 15-Jan-2022
Year 2022 dawned bleakly. Not just because of the resurgent Covid, but because of the.....
Christmas Season
Opinion | Articles | Benjamin Chang | 14-Dec-2021
Here in India, only in recent years, I see so many Protestant Sects using this term Advent Christmas. I am confused as to why some terms and practices of the Catholic Church are simply borrowed and used without actually knowing the meaning. Advent Christm.....
‘SILENT NIGHT’: Not Just a Song, but a Powerful Prayer.
Opinion | Editorial | John S. Shilshi | 14-Dec-2021
When the Austrian priest Joseph Mohr wrote the song 'Stille Nacht" in 1816 and asked his friend, teacher and Church organist, Franz Gruber to compose the music, he would have never in his wildest of imaginations, thought that the song would be a Christmas.....
Catholics make Their mark in Kachin Province of Strife-torn Myanmar
Opinion | Articles | John Zaw | 14-Dec-2021
Catholics make Their mark in Kachin Province of Strife-torn Myanmar These days Father Paul Lahpai Awng Dang worries less about the spillover of armed conflict between the military and ethnic Kachin rebels into his parish territory on the Myanmar-China .....
Unequal, Even in Death
Opinion | Articles | Chhotebhai | 14-Dec-2021
“So it is said We are all equal when dead. It is indeed the great equalizer; But only, and only when Subtle lies are the tranquilizer! Else, those who lie down in death, Are not equal yet”. If you are wondering which moron had muttered these immo.....