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'Short Street' in Kolkata renamed after St Francis Xavier. All about 16th-century Catholic missionary

On Thursday, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced that the British-era 'Short Street' in central Kolkata will be renamed 'St Francis Xavier Sarani.' St Francis Xavier, a co-founder of the Society of Jesus, is known for leading the first Christian mission to Japan in the 16th century as part of his work for the Portuguese Empire. ALL YOU NEED …

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3 weeks, 5 days ago

Manu Pillai’s Gods, Guns & Missionaries Reviews Hindu Identity’s Colonial Origins

The Hindu

Published : Nov 27, 2024 22:03 IST - 5 MINS READ The triple boom of Manu Pillai’s title reminds one of Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs and Steel, the work of a polymath that sought to explain the uneven spread of wealth across the world. Pillai’s focus is India, and he deals with soft facts, beliefs, and opinions, both of which …

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1 month ago

'Gods, Guns and Missionaries' excerpt: When Jesuits met devils and monsters in India

Live Mint

While the chief antagonists of the Jesuits in the Mughal court were its Muslim scholars, three fathers had observed some Hindu practice too. This ‘putting European clothing on an Indian subject’ became a ‘constant feature of the early Western image of Indian gods’ as well. Or as Mitter tells, ‘classical monsters and gods, Biblical demons and Indian gods were all …

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

A book that revealed the ‘entire story’ of Indian boarding schools would be important. This isn’t it.

LA Times

Students at a Presbyterian boarding school in Sitka, Alaska, in the summer of 1883. Book Review The Plot against Native America: The Fateful Story of Native American Boarding Schools and the Theft of Tribal Lands By Bill Vaughn Pegasus Books, 256 pages, $29.95 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose …

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

Catholics face a shortage of priests. But one Indonesian seminary is overwhelmed with applicants

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. More men are entering seminary, …

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4 months, 1 week ago

A peek into the legacy of Bengaluru’s St. Joseph’s Boys’ High School

The Hindu

Gowri Mirlay Achanta points to the silver in her hair and says, with a laugh, “Every strand of my grey hair talks of the trauma of teaching 6000 teenage boys.” The effort, clearly, was worth it. Achanta, who has taught history at St. Joseph’s Boys’ School since 1985, was greeted with warmth by the many old boys as she delivered …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

Pope’s top adviser, women who say they were abused by ex-Jesuit artist ask for mosaics to be removed

Associated Press

ROME — The scandal over a famous ex-Jesuit artist who is accused of psychologically, spiritually and sexually abusing adult women came to a head Friday after some of his alleged victims and the pope’s own anti-abuse adviser asked for his artworks not to be promoted or displayed. “Notwithstanding the years that have passed, the trauma that each suffered has not …

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6 months ago

Anthony Fauci has a right to savage Trump. Why doesn't he?

LA Times

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the then-director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, holding a face mask during a House subcommittee hearing on Capitol Hill in 2022. Bush’s chief of staff, John Sununu, called Fauci to find out “what the hell is going on,” the 83-year-old physician recounts in his new memoir, “On Call.” Later, at a government hearing …

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6 months ago

Peace must be a priority, say Catholic leaders on anniversary of priests’ violent deaths in Mexico

Associated Press

MEXICO CITY — Two years have passed since a leader of one of Mexico’s organized crime gangs stormed into a Catholic church in the remote Tarahumara mountains and fatally shot two Jesuit priests. “The murders of Fathers Javier and Joaquín has allowed us to redefine the pain that lives in the hearts of many corners of the country,” the Catholic …

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6 months, 4 weeks ago

AAP leader threatens political commentator with arrest for telling truth about Francis Xavier and slave trade by Jesuits

Op India

On Sunday, the Goa state President of the Aam Aadmi Party, Amit Palekar threatened a political commentator, Abhishek Banerjee, with arrest for writing a post about Francis Xavier and the Society of Jesus. Notably, on Saturday, author and Political commentator, Abhishek Banerjee shared a post about the Jesuits which was co-founded by Francis Xavier, and the religious outfits’s involvement in …

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7 months, 2 weeks ago

Experts' views on China-France relations

China Daily

MA XUEJING/CHINA DAILY Editor's note: This year marks the 60th anniversary of the establishment of China-France diplomatic ties. During the same period, several French Jesuits, later described as "Mathematicians of the King" arrived in Beijing, and became the mathematics teachers of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty.Their success in curing Kangxi of fever by administering quinine earned them the gift …

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7 months, 2 weeks ago

Sino-French exchanges have a robust future

China Daily

A men takes photographs in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France on Jan 20, 2023. During the same period, several French Jesuits, later described as "Mathematicians of the King" arrived in Beijing, and became the mathematics teachers of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty.Their success in curing Kangxi of fever by administering quinine earned them the gift of …

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7 months, 2 weeks ago

Experts' views on China-France relations

China Daily

MA XUEJING/CHINA DAILY Editor's note: This year marks the 60th anniversary of the establishment of China-France diplomatic ties. During the same period, several French Jesuits, later described as "Mathematicians of the King" arrived in Beijing, and became the mathematics teachers of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty.Their success in curing Kangxi of fever by administering quinine earned them the gift …

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7 months, 2 weeks ago

Sino-French exchanges have a robust future

China Daily

A men takes photographs in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France on Jan 20, 2023. During the same period, several French Jesuits, later described as "Mathematicians of the King" arrived in Beijing, and became the mathematics teachers of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty.Their success in curing Kangxi of fever by administering quinine earned them the gift of …

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9 months, 1 week ago

Mexico’s presidential candidates sign commitment for peace with church leaders concerned by violence

Associated Press

MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s presidential candidates on Monday signed a commitment for peace with Catholic Church leaders that proposes strategies to reduce the violence in the country. During the meeting led by the Episcopal Conference of Mexico, presidential front-runner and ruling party candidate Claudia Sheinbaum said she would be open to dialogue but didn’t accept several criticisms of President Andrés …

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10 months, 2 weeks ago

Jesuits in US bolster outreach initiative aimed at encouraging LGBTQ+ Catholics

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Even as Catholic dogma continues to repudiate same-sex marriage and gender transition, one of the most prominent religious orders in the United States — the Jesuits — is strengthening a unique outreach program for LGBTQ+ Catholics. He is the author of a book recounting the varied ways that Catholics in the U.S. responded to the AIDS crisis …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Yerba mate: South America's 'beverage of champions'

BBC

Yerba mate: South America's 'beverage of champions' tilialucida/Alamy South America's 'beverage of champions' It's 10:30 in the calm, wide streets of La Paternal in Buenos Aires, a neighbourhood of low-rise residential buildings, warehouses and art studios. When Argentina's national football team travelled to Qatar in December 2022 to play – and win – the World Cup, they carried 240 kg …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Priest kicked out of Jesuits for alleged abuse of women welcomed into Slovenia diocese

Associated Press

ROME — A famous priest-artist who was thrown out of the Jesuits after being accused of sexual, spiritual and psychological abuse of women has been accepted into a diocese in his native Slovenia, the latest twist in a case that has implicated the pope and laid bare the limits of the Vatican’s in-house legal system. But the Koper diocese said …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Alumni grieve for Jesuit-run university seized by Nicaraguan government that transformed their lives

Associated Press

MÉXICO CITY — Long before it was confiscated by President Daniel Ortega’s government in mid-August, the Jesuit-run University of Central America in Nicaragua was a special place for the thousands whose minds and lives it transformed. “This is a government policy that systematically violates human rights and appears to be aimed at consolidating a totalitarian state,” the Society of Jesus …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Nicaraguan government seizes highly regarded university from Jesuits

Associated Press

MEXICO CITY — Nicaragua’s government has confiscated a prestigious Jesuit-run university alleging it was a “center of terrorism,” the college said Wednesday in announcing the latest in a series of actions by authorities against the Catholic Church and opposition figures. “With this confiscation, the Ortega government has buried freedom of thought in Nicaragua,” said María Asunción Moreno, who was a …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Jesuits confirm expulsion of a priest artist and lament that Vatican norms block harsher sanctions

Associated Press

ROME — The Jesuits said Monday that a famous artist priest is definitively expelled from the religious order for sexually, spiritually and psychologically abusing women, and lamented they couldn’t prosecute him more vigorously under the Vatican’s internal procedures. Marko Ivan Rupnik remains a Catholic priest but is no longer a Jesuit priest, after he didn’t appeal his June expulsion decree, …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Jesuits expel prominent priest after allegations of sexual, spiritual and psychological abuse

Associated Press

ROME — Pope Francis’ Jesuit religious order said Thursday it has expelled a prominent Slovenian priest from the congregation following allegations of sexual, spiritual and psychological abuses against adult women. Marko Ivan Rupnik was dismissed from the Jesuit order by decree on June 9 “due to stubborn refusal to observe the vow of obedience.” Rupnik is one of the most …

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1 year, 6 months ago

El Salvador prosecutors said ex-president approved 1989 massacre of Jesuits

Associated Press

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — Prosecutors in El Salvador say they have evidence that former President Alfredo Cristiani was present at a meeting that approved the 1989 massacre of six Jesuit priests and two others by soldiers. Prosecutors who announced the case against Cristiani last year presented formal charges against the former president at an arraignment hearing late Monday, saying …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Pope sends Vatican official to Bolivia as abuse allegations escalate

Associated Press

LA PAZ, Bolivia — Pope Francis has sent one of his top sex crimes investigators to Bolivia at a time when the Andean nation is being shaken by an escalating pedophilia scandal involving priests. The Bolivian Episcopal Conference said Bertomeu’s visit is not directly related to the recent sex abuse allegations but had been planned earlier to analyze “the progress …

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'Short Street' in Kolkata renamed after St Francis Xavier. All about 16th-century Catholic missionary

Manu Pillai’s Gods, Guns & Missionaries Reviews Hindu Identity’s Colonial Origins

'Gods, Guns and Missionaries' excerpt: When Jesuits met devils and monsters in India

A book that revealed the ‘entire story’ of Indian boarding schools would be important. This isn’t it.

Catholics face a shortage of priests. But one Indonesian seminary is overwhelmed with applicants

A peek into the legacy of Bengaluru’s St. Joseph’s Boys’ High School

Pope’s top adviser, women who say they were abused by ex-Jesuit artist ask for mosaics to be removed

Anthony Fauci has a right to savage Trump. Why doesn't he?

Peace must be a priority, say Catholic leaders on anniversary of priests’ violent deaths in Mexico

AAP leader threatens political commentator with arrest for telling truth about Francis Xavier and slave trade by Jesuits

Experts' views on China-France relations

Sino-French exchanges have a robust future

Experts' views on China-France relations

Sino-French exchanges have a robust future

Mexico’s presidential candidates sign commitment for peace with church leaders concerned by violence

Jesuits in US bolster outreach initiative aimed at encouraging LGBTQ+ Catholics

Yerba mate: South America's 'beverage of champions'

Priest kicked out of Jesuits for alleged abuse of women welcomed into Slovenia diocese

Alumni grieve for Jesuit-run university seized by Nicaraguan government that transformed their lives

Nicaraguan government seizes highly regarded university from Jesuits

Jesuits confirm expulsion of a priest artist and lament that Vatican norms block harsher sanctions

Jesuits expel prominent priest after allegations of sexual, spiritual and psychological abuse

El Salvador prosecutors said ex-president approved 1989 massacre of Jesuits

Pope sends Vatican official to Bolivia as abuse allegations escalate