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indiancatholicmatters.org > a-girl-child-at-the-heart-of-faith

A Girl Child at the Heart of Faith

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (856+ words) A New Home for the Community! Every September 8, the Church marks a feast that rarely makes headlines: the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. In many parishes across Asia, it passes quietly. Yet this celebration of a girl child’s birth…...


indiancatholicmatters.org > when-swords-become-ploughshares-the-ecology-of-peace

When Swords Become Ploughshares: The Ecology of Peace

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1024+ words) A New Home for the Community! The 2026 message of Pope Leo XIV for the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation arrives at a revealing moment. Its central image is ancient but urgent: “They shall beat their swords…...


indiancatholicmatters.org > beyond-left-and-right-fidelity-to-the-magisterium

Beyond Left and Right: Fidelity to the Magisterium

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (1376+ words) A New Home for the Community! By Lavoisier Fernandes – St John Paul II anticipated this crisis of truth in Fides et Ratio (1998), warning against reducing the search for meaning to “merely human argumentation”. For Christianity, truth is not simply an…...


indiancatholicmatters.org > marys-crown-reveals-what-every-person-is-worth

Mary???s Crown Reveals What Every Person Is Worth

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (662+ words) A New Home for the Community! 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. Say that out loud, and it sounds almost absurd. No…...


indiancatholicmatters.org > indian-catholic-forum-to-host-conference-on-synodal-church-secular-society-amid-rising-concerns

Indian Catholic Forum to Host Conference on ‘Synodal Church – Secular Society’ Amid Rising Concerns

1+ mon, 2+ day ago   (231+ words) A New Home for the Community! Synod on Synodality: Process continues, critics say little has changed Christians in India cite mounting insecurity under majoritarian politics Conference seeks dialogue across Church and society Against this dual backdrop, the ICF’s October conference…...


indiancatholicmatters.org > the-eucharist-speaks-the-language-of-unity

The Eucharist Speaks the Language of Unity

1+ mon, 5+ day ago   (1229+ words) A New Home for the Community! By Lavoisier Fernandes – The Eucharist is where Catholics should discover most profoundly what it means to belong to the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church. Every Sunday, Catholics across the world gather around the…...


indiancatholicmatters.org > from-catechism-to-catechesis

From Catechism to Catechesis

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (398+ words) A New Home for the Community! (Corollary to “From Catechism to Atheism) I recall when I finished Cambridge class in 1965. Our Vice Principal Bro Burke, an Irishman, warned us that the first two years outside school could make or mar…...


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From Cathechism to Atheism

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (631+ words) A New Home for the Community! Can catechism lead to atheism? Not surprisingly, it can. I am sharing below the testimony of a Sunday School teacher of 20 year’s standing. It brought me to tears. If you too are a parent,…...


indiancatholicmatters.org > not-slaves-but-sons

"Not Slaves, but Sons"

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (603+ words) A New Home for the Community! The Letter on Perfect Obedience (26 March 1553), Its Troubled Origins, and Its Uncomfortable Relevance Today By Fr. Sebastian James, SJ – For Ignatius, this was no abstract mysticism. A body of “Friends in the Lord” working…...


indiancatholicmatters.org > bishops-theologians-and-a-cockroach

Bishops, Theologians and a Cockroach!

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (734+ words) A New Home for the Community! About 10 bishops and 50 theologians from across the country gathered at the Pastoral Centre, Agra on 25th/ 26th July for the 27th Colloquium of the CBCI’s Commission for Doctrine. As a layman I was the only cockroach. The…...