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chhotebhai – This saying literally means upsetting well laid plans. Whose plans? God’s plans. Who has queered the pitch – Church leaders and so-called missionaries.
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By Lavoisier Fernandes – Fr Bolmax Pereira, a prominent Catholic priest, environmental activist, and educator from Goa, passed away at the age of 50 on
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Purushottam Nayak – Berhampur: The Catholic community in Odisha in the eastern state of India, mourned the death of a well-known and respected Catholic personality,
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We often treat sleep as a mechanical necessity—a simple recharging of the batteries. For the Christian, however, the passage from waking to sleeping is a
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There is something almost embarrassing about the way Pentecost gets observed. Candles were lit, hymns were sung, and a brief homily about unity was given;
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# chhotebhai – During Eastertide, till the Ascension, the daily Mass readings are invariably taken from the Acts of the Apostles. Some of these acts
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Verghese V Joseph & Ivan S Costa – Hemmakki: On a bright Thursday morning on 21 May 2026, the tiny village of Hemmakki located in
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By Lavoisier Fernandes For decades, public discourse about Christianity — especially Catholicism — has revolved around sexuality: who people sleep with, who they marry, what
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Pope Leo welcomes the Villa Nzareth community to the Vatican and encourages its members to persevere in offering intellectual, moral, and financial support to young people who “need light and guidance, especially in order to achieve unity between mind and spirit, between faith, study, profession, and life.”
As international cooperation faces growing strain, the World Bank's Vice President for Development Finance, Aki Nishio, warns that development progress is becoming increasingly uneven, with some of the world's poorest countries left behind by the combined impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic, declining aid, conflict and climate change.
Meeting with members of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal for the first time since the beginning of his pontificate, Pope Leo XIV reflects on the movement's spiritual foundations and encourages its members to place their gifts at the service of the whole Church.
Professor Léocadie Wabo Lushombo, a Congolese theologian based at the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University in Berkeley, United States, has emphasised that the civilization of love highlighted by Pope Leo XIV in his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanita, invites active participation and discussion grounded in love, with the goal of reducing inequalities in society.