Queering the Pitch
chhotebhai - This saying literally means upsetting well laid plans. Whose plans? God’s plans. Who has queered the pitch – ...
Fr Bolmax Pereira: The “St Oscar Romero of Goa” and Guardian of Goa’s Ecology
By Lavoisier Fernandes - Fr Bolmax Pereira, a prominent Catholic priest, environmental activist, and educator from Goa, passed away at ...
Poland: Motherhood is Meant for Every Woman
Paul Suski - This Feast of Mary, Queen of Poland, observed on May 3 and a national holiday in that ...
FCRA Amendments: Freedom vs Regulation
By S Gerald Jacob and Dr. Karamala Areesh Kumar - The proposed 2026 amendments to the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act ...
A Year After Pope Francis: Remembering His Legacy
By Lavoisier Fernandes - It has been a year since the death of Pope Francis, a pope who, through his ...
Mercy Isn’t Easy, But It Changes Everything
By Lavoisier Fernandes In 2017, I took my octogenarian father to the Divine Mercy Sanctuary in Kraków, Poland. He had ...
Easter Reflection: Being Easter People Today
Know, Make and Live the Difference! EASTER SUNDAY: April 05, 2026 He is risen and he goes before you to ...
The Tomb Is Empty and That Is Not Nothing
My grandfather kept a small wooden cross above his bed his entire adult life. When he died, we found a ...
Pierced for Eternity: The Nail and Thorn from Ancient Craft to Christ’s Cross
For over 5,000 years, nails have fastened the frameworks of human ambition—from Egyptian tombs to modern skyscrapers—while thorns have guarded ...
Maundy Thursday: More Than a Meal, A Message of Love and Service
Br. Malvino Alfonso OCD - Holy Thursday, also known as Maundy Thursday, marks the beginning of the most sacred days ...
Palm Sunday Reflection: Palmyra Tree Grew Where We Couldn’t Reach
By John Singarayar SVD - I grew up thinking God lived at the top of a palmyra tree. Not literally ...
Social Media’s ‘Tobacco Moment’: Tech Giants Face Reckoning, Echoing Catholic Warnings on Digital Addiction
Verghese V Joseph - In a seismic shift reminiscent of the tobacco industry's downfall three decades ago, social media behemoths ...
Wanted: A ‘Romero’ for India!
24 March, is celebrated as the Feast of St. Oscar Romero. It was on this day in 1980, he ...
Gente di Primavera: The Day of Missionary Martyrs 2026
Europe is now entering the season of spring, known in Italian as primavera. The word comes from Latin: prīmus meaning ...
Called to be a ‘Joseph’ Today!
We live today in a world in which war, violence and hate are centre-stage. Thousands have been killed and millions ...
Blessed Jerzy Popiełuszko: the 20th-century St. Andrew Bobola?
By Paul Suski - On February 5, 2026, an article about Blessed Father Jerzy Popiełuszko appeared in the Catholic weekly ...
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 ...