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4 months, 3 weeks ago

'Persecuted by this Wack Job!' Trump makes frantic claims in rambling Truth Social post

Former President Donald Trump is claiming an influential charity whose members are barred from making political endorsements is warning Catholics away from "Crazy Kamala Harris." Trump wrote on Truth Social Wednesday that the Catholic organization Knights of Columbus was launching a large political campaign against his presumed opponent in the 2024 presidential election. "A large group of Catholics is launching …

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8 months, 1 week ago

Skip pilgrimage on May 6, vote for those with secular credentials: Goa Cardinal

Hindustan Times

PANAJI: Goa Archbishop Filipe Neri Ferrão on Tuesday asked people to avoid travelling to Vailankanni, a prominent Catholic pilgrimage site in Tamil Nadu, on May 6 since it would mean missing out on the “moral obligation” of casting one’s vote. The Goa Archbishop, looked up to by Catholics who make up 25% of the state population, is known to articulate …

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1 year ago

Petition in Kerala High Court seeks to ensure representation of most backward communities in appointment of judges to HC

The Hindu

A former scientist of the India Council for Agriculture Research has moved the Kerala High Court seeking directions to the Central Government and others to ensure equitable representation to Scheduled Castes, Latin Catholics or other backward communities in the appointment of judges to the High Court of Kerala. M. K. Mukundan moved the High Court pointing out that there was …

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1 year ago

Plea In Kerala HC Seeks Equitable Representation Of Backward Community In Appointment Of High Court Judges

Live Law

A plea has been moved in the Kerala High Court by a Scientist retired from the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, seeking equitable representation of backward classes such as Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Latin Catholics, etc. Mukundan, who himself belongs to a backward community alleged that the principles of Social Justice as envisaged in Articles 38, 46, and 335 of …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Pope Francis removes a leading US conservative critic as bishop of Tyler, Texas

Associated Press

ROME — Pope Francis on Saturday ordered the removal of the bishop of Tyler, Texas, a conservative prelate active on social media who has been a fierce critic of the pontiff and has come to symbolize the polarization within the U.S. Catholic hierarchy. A one-line statement from the Vatican said Francis had “relieved” Bishop Joseph Strickland of the pastoral governance …

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1 year, 2 months ago

The role of the Church in Kerala’s politics

Hindustan Times

Bins Abraham owns a 12-acre rubber plantation in Erattupetta, a plantation town nestled in the foothills of the Western Ghats. Though the term “love jihad” was coined by Right-wing Hindu groups in 2007, the Catholic Church in Kerala began to use it as an instrument to discourage inter-religious marriages. In January 2020, the synod or highest administrative body of Syro-Malabar …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Pakistan’s Punjab government announces Rs 2 million for riot-hit Christian families

Firstpost

A mob ransacked and torched 21 churches and several houses of Christians last week over blasphemy allegations in Jaranwala town of Faisalabad district, 130 km from Punjab’s provincial capital Lahore. A Christian cemetery and the office of the local assistant commissioner were also vandalised Pakistan’s Punjab government on Monday announced a compensation of Rs 2 million for around 100 Christian …

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1 year, 11 months ago

In US, sharply contrasting views on Benedict XVI’s legacy

Associated Press

NEW YORK — In the United States, admirers of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI remembered him warmly for his theological prowess and devotion to traditional doctrine. Professor Kathleen Sprows Cummings, director of the University of Notre Dame’s Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism, depicted Benedict as “a man of unwavering faith, deep conviction and towering intellect,” yet added that …

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3 years, 1 month ago

Column: L.A.’s top Catholic goes off on ‘woke’ culture, social justice movements

LA Times

Los Angeles Archbishop Jose H. Gomez at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in 2016. Earlier this month, Jose H. Gomez, Archdiocese of Los Angeles archbishop, gave a speech to a Catholic conference in Spain where he went verbally medieval on “woke” culture and social justice movements. But because he refuses to engage, he’ll lose the faithful in …

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54 years, 11 months ago

Joe Biden Is a Different Kind of Catholic

Slate

In 2009, a radical Catholic priest with amazing red shoes enraged American conservatives. Yet even before Pope Francis put conservative Catholics into a seemingly eternal tizzy, Catholics around the world and in the U.S. have actually cared a lot about the same things our new Catholic president, Joe Biden, cares about; they’ve just gotten a lot less attention than the …

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