Lenten Reflection: Listen; because the Lord your God listens!
THE WORD IN LENT 2026 - FIRST WEEK THURSDAY February 26 – Esther 4: 17; Matthew 7: 7-12 Listening to ...
Peter Is Here: 400 Years of St. Peter’s Basilica
Pietro - Un uomo nel vento (Peter - A Man in the Wind), the powerful monologue book by the well-known ...
Lent in Terms of Fasting
THE WORD IN LENT 2026 - FRIDAY AFTER ASH WEDNESDAY February 20 – Isaiah 58: 1-9; Matthew 9: 14-15 Lent ...
Lenten Reflection: Lent as a Time of Conversion
By Fr. Antony Christy, sdb - February 19 - Deuteronomy 30: 15-20; Luke 9: 22-25 Lent as a time of ...
Lenten Spirituality for Total Union with God
Leon Bent - Jesus prepared himself in arid land for 40 days for his public ministry. The hermit yearns for ...
Ash Wednesday: Lenten Reflection: Listening and Fasting
Fr Antony Christy, sdb - Lent as a Time of Conversion February 18 - Joel 2: 12-18; 2 Corinthians 5:20 ...
Making a Difference: Lent Urges Us to Venture From Darkness into the Light
By Tony Magliano - With dust-like ashes crossed upon our foreheads, each one of us is firmly presented with Ash ...
Lent: A Time for Greening Our Souls
Janina Gomes - Lent, the 40-day journey toward Easter that begins on Ash Wednesday, is often reduced to a somber ...
Historical Injustice and the Concept of Truth in Saint John Paul II
Nearly four years have passed since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and eight since the annexation of Crimea. Every war ...
Jacob’s Fourteen Years: Labouring Towards Divine Love
In the book of Genesis, we encounter a curious chronological detail in the life of the Patriarch Jacob. To marry ...
Love That Lasts in a Distracted World
By Lavoiser Fernandes - Valentine’s Day arrives each year with predictable enthusiasm. Shops turn red, restaurants fill, and love is ...
Assam: Integral Ecology and Climate Response of the North East Church
Guwahati: The North East Commission for Ecology and Climate Change convened a two-day regional planning meeting on Integral Ecology and ...
San Francesco Vive: A Seed of Peace and Mercy for Our Time
Fr. M. Titus Mohan - A Special Franciscan Jubilee Year has begun to mark the 800th anniversary of the death ...
The Ministerial Priesthood and St. Maximillian Kolbe
By Paul Suski - Nothing is more doomed to failure than a layperson trying to tell the clergy what they ...
Disarming Our Hearts: The Vocation of Peace Making
By Lavoisier Fernandes - If 2025 left us worried, 2026 doesn’t yet give much reason for comfort. The Jubilee Year ...
Christian Unity Calls India to Prayer
John Singarayar SVD - Every January, as winter settles across northern India, Christians from countless traditions pause to pray together ...
Una Caro: Where Are the Families?
- A Doctrinal Reflection on Monogamy Today Last full month, we, the priests of the parish of Santi Silvestro ...
Saint Arnold Janssen Still Speaks to Us
When Pope Francis said that the Church grows by witness, not by propaganda, he could have been echoing the heart ...
The Poor Evangelise Us
Rev. Dr. Merlin Rengith Ambrose - In society’s tapestry, the impoverished and marginalised are not merely passive recipients of Christian ...
What Do You Mean By ‘Deck The Halls With Boughs of Holly’?
By Jacqueline Kelly - Before we find an answer to that, let's try to understand what are Christmas flowers? Poinsettia ...
Christmas: Spruce Trees That Mark Friendship
By Jacqueline Kelly – Trees have been revered throughout the ages. The roots of modern Christmas tree tradition is traced ...
100 Years of Christian Faith: Odisha’s Sukananda Attributes it to Our Lady of Immaculate Conception
By Purushottam Nayak - Sukananda, Odisha: In Odisha, Sukananda, Kandhamal district under archdiocese of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar attributes the successful completion of ...
Fr. Jerome D’Souza: The Jesuit Who Contributed to India’s Constitution
When we speak of the architects of modern India, names like Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, Jawaharlal Nehru, or Sardar Patel immediately ...
St. John Henry Newman: A Pilgrim’s Teacher and a Voice for an Age of Dialogue
I. Introduction: Newman, the 38th Doctor of the Church On 1 November 2025, Pope Leo XIV solemnly declared St. John ...
The Servant King: Living a Life of Agape in the Digital Age
By Lavoisier Fernandes - Every generation must decide whom it will follow. In our time, the kings we serve are ...
India’s Kerala Chose Dignity Over Excuses and Won
Dr. John Singarayar SVD - Something extraordinary happened in India, and most of us probably missed it. On November 1, ...
Does God Play Games?
# chhotebhai - On 30th October my wife and I sat to watch the last two hours of the semi-final ...
‘Aap Asha ki Anmol Kiran Hai’: Mega Utsav Ignites Rays of Hope for Mumbai’s Marginalized Young
On October 18, 2025, the grounds of Auxilium Convent, Wadala, Mumbai, blossomed into an oasis of hope and unity as ...
St. Pier Giorgio Frassati’: Mountain-Top Experience
Paul Suski - The Italian Alps — that formidable stretch of Europe’s great mountain arc — rise in dramatic splendour ...
We Desperately Need More Saints Today
Last year, I watched Father Anthonyswamy stack boxes of canned goods in the pouring rain. His small rural church had ...
Maria Troncatti: Spreading the Fragrance of Sanctity
By Sr. Dr. Teresa Joseph, FMA - The metaphor of “spreading the fragrance of sanctity” is deeply woven into Catholic ...
Called ‘To Mission’
‘The Mission’, is a 1986 British period drama film, about the experiences of a Jesuit missionary in 18th-century South America ...
Are Religions Commercialised?
Just recently I hired an autorickshaw in Bengaluru. While traveling in the autorickshaw I noticed a printed caption above the ...
A Colossal Salesian: Fr. Luciano Colussi
Fr. Soroj Mullick SDB - The Krishnagar diocese in West Bengal recently celebrated the 15th death anniversary of Father Luciano ...
The Cross: Holy Source of Forgiveness
Paul Suski - Upon the tree of the Cross, Christ wrought our reconciliation with God. This grace of reconciliation, inseparably ...
Small Faith in an Infinite God
Dr. John Singarayar SVD - Last Tuesday morning, I stood in my kitchen staring at my coffee maker, and I ...
After St. Devasahayam Pillai, Diaspora Catholics Renew Calls for St. Joseph Vaz
Verghese V Joseph - The Indian Catholic community in the U.S., Canada and other countries received historic news this September: ...
Did Jesus Speak Latin?
# chhotebhai - Readers will pardon me for asking another audacious question. They will also note that I often write ...
The Hidden Strength of Vulnerability
By Lavoisier Fernandes In 2022, Pope Francis made a quiet but powerful statement—not through grand speeches or lofty theological declarations, ...
India’s Christians Find Their Champion Saint
By Dr. John Singarayar SVD - Last Tuesday morning, Father Jesu announced something special during mass at Saint Francis Xavier’s ...