Opinion
Does Catholic Fellowship Matter?
Opinion | Articles | Michele Faihnle | 15-Mar-2021
Eleven years ago I took my son to a Protestant church for vacation Bible school. The second I walked in the door, people introduced themselves, welcomed me, asked my name, and directed me where to go.Every morning that week was more of the same: It began.....
Challenges for Catholic Education Mission in Asia
Opinion | Articles | Ben Joseph | 15-Mar-2021
The world’s accumulated human capital, which creates the wealth of nations, is facing an existential crisis and generational catastrophe. Of the 1.6 billion students affected in more than 190 countries when the pandemic crisis unfolded, 24 million are set.....
Totalization, Reining Totalities and the Dialectics of One and the Many
Opinion | Articles | Victor Ferrao | 14-Mar-2021
When unity is construed as uniformity, diversity suffocates and dies. There is the diversal in the universal. Both sameness and otherness co-exists in the real. This is why what is universal cannot be reduced to sameness. When unity becomes uniformity, i.....
POCSO and its Salient Features
Opinion | Editorial | John S. Shilshi | 14-Feb-2021
In Indian society, child abuse (particularly of girls) has mostly been kept under wraps. Going public, in the form of registering complaints etc, has seen families being shamed and ostracized and the survivor being victimized for years, affecting even fut.....
Prayer and Fasting: A Powerful Medium of Spiritual Reflection
Opinion | Articles | Khansu Vialo Zingkhai | 14-Feb-2021
Come February 17 and we would be entering into the liturgical season of Lent. Lenten season is often referred to as a season of grace, a spiritual springtime, when we in preparation for the Great Feast of Easter are invited to enter into a deep spiritual .....
Mathematics: The Next Microscope of Life
Opinion | Articles | Victor Ferrao | 14-Feb-2021
Science has a deep relation with mathematics. Today even life sciences depend on quantitative measurements and correlations. Charles Darwin, the father of evolution is said to have expressed his regrets when he said, ‘ I have not proceeded far enough .....
Need for Re-skilling and Up-skilling in Post Covid 19
Opinion | Articles | Felix Jajo | 14-Feb-2021
The whole world still continues to fight a pandemic and the fight seems to have taken a longer period than expected. But with the vaccines rolling out, there is a ray of hope amongst the people. It has been almost a year since the first nationwide lockdow.....
We wish the Pope had spoken out little bit more
Opinion | Editorial | John S. Shilshi | 14-Jan-2021
In his customary Urbi et Orbi address on Christmas day, Pope Francis spoke about the sufferings of mankind due to war, human rights violations, displacement, internal conflicts and natural calamities. The Pope took his world audience to Syria, Iraq, Yemen.....
Brief History of Catholic Church in Tripura through Chronological Timeline
Opinion | Articles | Vincent T Darlong | 14-Jan-2021
Introduction The year 2021 is an important milestone for the Catholic Church in Tripura. In February-March 2021, the Diocese of Agartala will conclude the year-long celebration of its Silver Jubilee. In 2020, the Diocese commemorated the 25th year of Ep.....
Resisting a loss of Image Dialectics
Opinion | Articles | Victor Ferrao | 14-Jan-2021
A felt sense of loss is increasing everywhere. We can see it in the Brexit or even in the recent mob invasion of the capitol building in USA. The farmers in India are profoundly haunted by the fear that they will be pushed in deep loss in the face of the.....
Save Democracy to ensure Human Rights
Opinion | Articles | Veronica Khangchian | 14-Jan-2021
“The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.”(John F. Kennedy) Year after year we observe Human Rights day on December 10. But the question is, how far do we celebrate it? The universal declaration of Human right.....
Living the Faith amidst the COVID Pandemic
Opinion | People's Edit | Joseph M Thohrii | 14-Jan-2021
“Many Christians grow up in Church, but never grow in Christ. They know Hymns but they don’t know ‘HIM’.” (Anonymous) It’s been a year since the global pandemic corona virus has brought the world to a standstill. Apart from loss of lives due to the vi.....
Catholic Institutes: Need for Fine-tuning some Areas of Concern
Opinion | Editorial | John S. Shilshi | 14-Dec-2020
While setting foot on the soils of different states of North-East India (then districts of the state of Assam), pioneer Catholic Missionaries encountered several hurdles. People and institutions, uncomfortable with the unfamiliar Catholic presence in the .....
Catholic Church in Meghalaya: Foundation and Growth
Opinion | Articles | David R. Syiemlieh | 14-Dec-2020
Catholics missionaries were the first among the Christian Missions to have entered the North East region. Their attention through the 18th and early 19th centuries was the pastoral care of three Portuguese settlements of Rangamati, located on the easternm.....
Woman and Child
Opinion | Articles | Desmond L. Kharmawphlang | 14-Dec-2020
The trudge from her hovel to the corner by the bus-stop would be covered in the time it took her to have her first mouthful of betel nut of the day, about say, 10 minutes. With her bag of bidis and cigarettes, plastic jars of shaved and pieced betel nuts .....