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By Lavoisier Fernandes – We live in an age increasingly suspicious of objective truth and universal moral authority. In a culture shaped by postmodern thinking,
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The Indian Catholic Church has received another precious gift to her spiritual heritage. Mother Scholastica, a daughter of Kanniyakumari (now in southern Indian state of
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Every August 22, Catholics mark a strange feast: a peasant girl from a town nobody respected gets crowned above every angel and saint in existence.
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It is heart-warming that the Catholic Church in India will observe 23 August as ‘Justice Sunday’. The theme is ‘Justice Begins with Us’ (Is 1:17).
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On 23 August 1939, Nazi Germany and the USSR concluded a non-aggression pact that, in reality, constituted a political and military alliance aimed at bringing
The post The Church Under Persecution: Father Józef Grasewicz, the Survival of Faith in Soviet Belarus, and the Story of the Divine Mercy Image appeared first on Indian Catholic Matters.
Subhasis Chattopadhyay Ph.D. Blessed Edmund Ignatius Rice was a man for the poor and this was stressed in the liturgy of the Holy Mass celebrated
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Kochi — Five years after Pope Francis launched the global Synod on Synodality to make the Catholic Church more participatory, and 12 years into a
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Nagpur: Marie Poussepin’s Academy celebrated India’s 80th Independence Day with enthusiasm, patriotic fervour and a renewed commitment to the values of unity, discipline and national
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Appointed Bishop of Datong (Shanxi, China) by Pope Leo XIV on August 10, following the approval of his candidacy under the framework of the Provisional Agreement between the Holy See and the People’s Republic of China, Paolo Liu Honggang receives episcopal consecration.
On August 30, the Apostolic Nuncio to Romania and the Republic of Moldova celebrated Mass at the Church of the Most Holy Redeemer in Bucharest and the Vatican Foundation “John Paul I” donated an icon and a relic of Blessed Albino Luciani to this church known as the “Italian Church.”
Bishop Erik Varden of Trondheim and Apostolic Administrator of Tromsø celebrated a solemn Mass in Longyearbyen on Sunday, 30 August, to mark 100 years since the first Catholic Mass was celebrated in Svalbard, Norway. In his homily, Bishop Varden reflects on vulnerability and loneliness, calling Christians to rediscover a sound sense of reality and to bring Christ’s reconciliation, healing and friendship to those who are isolated and afraid.
“The latest barbaric abduction of more than 60 worshippers from a Mosque in Borgu, Niger State, and the horrific massacre of 47 innocent citizens, with another 17 people seriously injured in Ukum, Benue State, represent a further deterioration of the security situation.” The bleak assessment was made by Archbishop Matthew Man-Oso Ndagoso, the Archbishop of Kaduna and President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria (CBCN).