By Jacqueline Kelly – At the hour of death, the tree of your soul will fall to one side and remain there for all eternity.
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St. Augustine and The Ten Stringed Harp
By Tom Thomas In the all-time classical work, “The Confessions,” St. Augustine prays, “O God most high, most sweet, our lives offend against your ten-stringed
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Christians and Hindus: Together Bringing Light in People’s Lives in Times of Despair
By Verghese V Joseph – Diwali festival is celebrated by all Hindus and is known as Deepavali or “row of oil lamps”. Symbolically based on
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Pope Francis at his Prophetic Best!
By Tony Magliano Clearly siding with the world’s poor and marginalized in a video message for the recent Fourth World Meeting of Popular Movements, Pope
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Shrines: Place of Prayer, Mercy and Hospitality
By Fr Soroj Mullick, SDB – People must have wondered why hundreds of men and women, young and old visit the Basilica of the Holy
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No One Should Ever Go Hungry – Yet Millions Do
By Tony Magliano – There is one war we need to fight. For without our intervention countless people will suffer, and thousands of children will
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Journeying Together: Synod, Synodal Church, and the Synod of Bishops
By Most Rev Prakash Mallavarapu, Archbishop of Visakhapatnam The forthcoming Synod of bishops is Synod with a difference: This call of the Holy Father is
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The Marian Devotion of Bl. Cardinal Stefan Wysznski
By Paul Suski – “I gambled everything on Mary.”- Blessed Stefan Wyszyński The quite recent beatification of Stefan Wyszyński made Catholic headlines around the world.
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Journeying Together in Communion, Participation and Mission
By Fr. Cedric Prakash SJ – On 11 October 1962, good Pope John XXIII (now Saint!) opened the historic Second Vatican Council, fully convinced that
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The Conflict Between Convergence of a ‘Global Culture’ and ‘Identity Politics’
By Fr Mathew Thankachen O.Praem. Human history always co-existed with conflicts – conflicts among tribes, culture, nations and religions. Marxists have explained this inevitable conflict
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Conservatives and Liberals Unite for Life – It’s The Catholic way!
By Tony Magliano For Catholics who put their faith first, before anything else, there is one way – above all others – to view the
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Pala Bishop’s Case: A Debate That Has Gone Too Far?
By Fr George Plathottam sdb – People who wanted to go after the blood of Pala Bishop Joseph Kallarangatt have made a heady cocktail of
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Wider “WE” is Witness!
By Fr Cedric Prakash SJ – Almost fifty years ago in 1972, David Campton, a prolific British dramatist, wrote an apparently innocuous, straight- forward and
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Sexual Misconduct: Law of Averages Will Always Catch Up
By Fr Joshan Rodrigues – Allegations of sexual misconduct against the big and powerful should force us to check our own sexual ethic, and understand
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What Ails Kerala’s Church?
By Verghese V Joseph – While there are many issues (the list runs long) that bog down the church in Kerala, the recent statements of
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