By Tony Magliano – Reflecting on the 50th Italian Catholic Social Week theme “At the Heart of Democracy,” Pope Francis said to the 900 participants,
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The Role and Vocation of Women in the Church
By Lavoisier Fernandes – It was exciting to learn that St. Peter’s Basilica recently hired two women as “sanpietrini,” the church’s specialized artisans and workers.
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Does God Have a Sense of Humour?
By Lavoisier Fernandes – As a millennial, God was never humorous for the majority of my life. Before he revealed something really remarkable to me
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Time for Indian Church to Seriously Introspect Climate Change
M L Satyan – The terrible heatwave spread across the country has been bothering me for a while as I too have experienced it in
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CBCI Welcomes PM’s Invitation to Pope Francis
Verghese V Joseph – New Delhi: The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) has welcomed the meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Pope Francis,
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Modi Meets Pope Francis at G7 Summit, Invites Him to Visit India
Verghese V Joseph – Vatican City, June 14, 2024 – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Pope Francis on the sidelines of the G7 Summit
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Coimbatore Diocese Gears Up for Jubilee 2025 at Clergy-Religious Recollection
Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu: The Diocese of Coimbatore held its monthly clergy-religious recollection on June 10th, 2024, with a special focus on the upcoming Jubilee Year
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Interview: Through the Eyes of Vatican Observatory: Where Science Meets Faith!
Does science meet religion? What’s a better way than looking through a telescope? Way back in 1891, in order to counteract the longstanding accusations of
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Carlo Acutis: Pope Francis Paves Way for the First Millennial Saint
Verghese V Joseph – In a significant development in the Catholic Church, Pope Francis has officially recognised a second miracle attributed to the late Italian
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Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church
By Leon Bent – On Saturday, March 3, 2018, the Vatican announced Pope Francis’ decision that the Church celebrate the Blessed Virgin Mary in her
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World Communication Day: Love Well to Communicate Well
By Lavoisier Fernandes We are in the information overload generation and are inundated with information from Facebook, Instagram, X/Twitter, Snapchat, YouTube, TikTok, and WhatsApp, whether
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How Profitable is Persecution?
# chhotebhai – This is indeed a strange title. It is borrowed from the Vatican II document “The Pastoral Constitution of the Church in the
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Part III: In Preparation for Jubilee 2025 – Read, Reflect and Live Vatican II Documents
Fr Arockia Rayappan – Some more of our own Christ’s faithful have spared their valuable time to share their perspectives with the readers of the
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Part II: In Preparation for Jubilee 2025 – Read, Reflect and Live Vatican II Documents
Fr Arockia Rayappan – Some of our own Christ’s faithful have spared their valuable time to share their perspectives with the readers of the Indian
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Part I: In Preparation for Jubilee 2025 – Read, Reflect and Live Vatican II Documents
By Fr Arockia Rayappan – For Pope Francis, a Jubilee is a religious event of great spiritual, ecclesial, and social significance in the life of
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