State control of temples: A potential asset for Hindus?
Of late, there are a few voices, on social media and elsewhere, who have been putting forth a demand to free Hindu temples from state control.[1] However, it might be…
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Pope Francis to be Sued by Victims of Catholic Church Sex Abuse
NewYork Post reports that victims of sexual abuse at the hands of New York Clergy have filed a lawsuit against the pope in which they have claimed that despite the…
Religious Conversion is a Threat to National Security
There have been many incidents in recent days that have drawn attention towards the issue of religious conversion in the country using foreign money and anti-India propaganda by Christian missionary…
Highest-Ranking Vatican Official Ever Convicted in Sex Abuse Case Avoids Prison – Australia
At a time when yet another case of institutionalized sexual abuse by the Church has come to light in Bharat, comes news of a high-ranking Catholic priest escaping any meaningful…
Open letter to Cardinal Oswald Gracias, Archbishop of Mumbai
Dear Cardinal Oswald Gracias, I take this opportunity to inform you that I know what the Catholic Church is all about and the CBCI (Catholic Bishop’s Conference of India). In…
Male Escort Exposes 36 Gay Priests in Dossier Sent to Vatican
A 1,200-page dossier containing the names of 34 “actively gay” priests and six seminarians in Italy has been sent to the Vatican by the archdiocese of Naples. The allegations were…
Is Catholic Church Cardinal Beyond Law of Land: Kerala HC
The Kerala High Court on Monday harshly criticised Cardinal Mar George Alencherry, Major Archbishop of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church’s Ernakulam-Angamaly Archdiocese, in a case pertaining to a land scam. The…
Pope Francis Shocks Chile by Accusing Sex Abuse Victims of Slander
Pope Francis has accused victims of a pedophile priest of slandering a bishop by accusing him of a cover-up of the priest’s actions. The pope’s remarks in Chile Thursday marked a…
Is Catholic Church Stoking Alienation Among Fisherfolk Using Cyclone Ockhi Tragedy?
Families are grieving, political parties are busy with blame games, media is scavenging on the dead and troubled for TRPs, but the church is as vigilant as ever in the…
Church ‘Forgave’ Priest who Confessed 1500 Times to Molesting Children to 30 Priests Across 25 years
This week saw the publication of the Criminal Justice report by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. It calls for sweeping change to the Catholic Church’s…