Healthcare

Filling the Void: The Church’s Response to Mental Health

By Lavoisier Fernandes - In the Catholic Community discourse, despite its significant impact on parish and community settings and individual ...
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Courageous Souls: Battling Illness with Grace

Tom Thomas - “Disease is surely one of the ways in which we are tried by life and offered the ...

Keeping the Sabbath: Balancing Physical Exercise and Spiritual Renewal on a Sunday

By Tom Thomas – "Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, ...

Gluttony: The Most Dangerous Vice

By Tom Thomas. As far as I can remember, I have struggled with my weight for most of my life.  ...

St. John’s Medical College Jubilee Celebrations: Slew of Services Soon, India Post Releases Special Cover

Verghese V Joseph – Bengaluru: One can take a Johnite out of St John’s but you can’t take John out ...

What ‘Birth Control Pills’ Are Doing to Your Body

By Fr Joshan Rodrigues – Most people have heard about ‘Birth control pills’ or the ‘Morning-after pill’ or ‘oral contraceptives’, ...

Part III: Healing and Forgiveness

By Prof. Joy Philip Kakkanattu, CMI - In the Bible, healing and forgiveness are interrelated. This does not imply that ...

Part II: New Testament Understanding on Healing

By Prof. Joy Philip Kakkanattu, CMI - The book of Job dwells more on the suffering caused by sickness and ...

Part I: A Biblical-Historical Perspective of Healing Ministry of the Church

By Prof. Joy Philip Kakkanattu, CMI - The Bible can be understood as the written document of the memory of ...

Our Lady of Lourdes and World Day of the Sick

By Leon Bent - Our Lady of Lourdes is a Roman Catholic title of the Blessed Virgin Mary, venerated in ...

Why St. Joseph (Naik) Vaz “Matters” to Indian Catholics

By Filomena Saraswati Giese - We are at the crossroads of where the Church is heading as great changes take ...

The Food, Mind and Faith Connection

Dr. Jobby George – We are all aware that food has multiple nutrients to nourish each and every cell in ...

Assam Medical College – Sisters of Charity & Nursing Care: A Saga of Love and Service

By Allen Brookes - The 75th Dimond Jubilee of Assam Medical College, Dibrugarh a pioneer health care institution of the ...

12 Kids Diagnosed With Leprosy in 15 Days, St Francis Leprosy Guild CEO Fears the Worst

Verghese V Joseph – While the Indian city of Mumbai (formerly Bombay) is showing resilience in overcoming the COVID-19 pandemic, ...

Saints for Today: Martin de Porres and Rupert Mayer

By Fr. Cedric Prakash SJ - Come 3 November, the Church celebrates the memory of two outstanding men, both worthy ...

Using the Science of Yoga to Cure Addiction

By Fr. Joe Periera, As a Catholic Priest working in the field of addiction and addiction-related ailments such as HIV ...

The God-Experience: A Bolt From the Blue and Three Commandments

By Dr. George Jacob Let me begin with a disclaimer. I am not writing this neither to boast. Nor to ...

Homily: Be Like the Good Samaritan

Fr. Eugene Lobo S.J. - Fifteenth Sunday of the Year July 10, 2022 Deuteronomy 30:10-14; Colossians 1:15-20; Luke 10:25-37 We ...

Death Penalty MUST be Abolished!

By Fr. Cedric Prakash SJ On 18 February 2022, a Special Court, designated for speedy trial of the accused in ...

Demystifying Synodality

By Most Rev Prakash Mallavarapu, Archbishop of Visakhapatnam In order to have better understanding, let us clarify the words “synod” ...
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Our Lady of Health: Accompanying the Children

By His Grace Most Rev. Prakash Mallavarapu, Archbishop of Visakhapatnam Our Lady of Health feast is celebrated with joy and ...

The World Day of Grandparents and Elderly: An Indian Scenario.

Fr. Mathew Thankachen O. Praem - It is for the first time in the history of the Catholic Church that ...

Covid-19: Create a Family Contingency Toolkit

By Verghese V Joseph – All this while, life has indeed thrown up some glorious uncertainties that is until the ...

Taking Care of Ourselves in Time of Uncertainty

By Jennifer Pinto - So we’re now in the thick of the Coronavirus situation and everyone is struggling to do ...

On World Day of the Sick, May We find Our Healer in Christ

By Leon Bent The World Day of the Sick is an awareness day, or observance, in the Catholic Church which ...

This is Not the Apocalypse: Duh, Go Figure!

By Subhasis Chattopadhyay Hindus think that it is our Karma which has served us this fit pudding: COVID-19. My Christian ...

Here’s Hope for Alcohol-Dependants During Lockdown

By Fr. Adolf Washington - Bangalore: In mid-April, a brother and his sister (in their thirties) gulped bottles of alcohol-based ...

Tackling Covid-19: Let Us Be Responsible Citizens

By Subhasis Chattopadhyay - India needs to immediately shut down all travel; social contact and have whistle-blower policies for those ...

COVID-19: Biblical Rules for a Disciplined Society

By Dr. Marianne Furtado de Nazareth - The world has been hit by COVID-19 and the state of Karnataka and ...

The Lenten Corona

By Fr K J Antony, SDB - Flights suspended; hospital staff on duty 24/7; empty roads; empty public halls and ...