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 same altar. They may hear Scripture proclaimed in different...
Father Joseph Thermadom, CSC, is India’s first deaf Catholic priest, the third in Asia, and only the 26th in the world. Born in Thrissur, Kerala, India, and raised in Mumbai, he spent more than a decade in seminary formation in...
“The world is a global village” has become one of the most familiar metaphors of describing modern existence. Although coined by media scholar and philosopher Marshall McLuhan in the 1960s, it captures something true about our time: technology, travel, and...
For decades, public discourse about Christianity — especially Catholicism — has revolved around sexuality: who people sleep with, who they marry, what they do with their bodies, what is permitted, what is sinful. In the age of social media and...
A rumor used to travel slowly. Someone would mention something after Mass, at work, or over dinner, and maybe it reached a few people by the end of the week if it was juicy enough. Now it takes one post....
It is often said that when the Pope speaks, the world listens. Throughout its history — and especially over the past century — the Church has found itself speaking prophetically at key turning points of modern life. For example, in...
Every month, the Holy Father Pope Leo XIV invites Catholics to pray for a particular intention. This May, the prayer intention is simple: that everyone might have food and that food is not wasted. It sounds uncontroversial, almost too ordinary...
This interview was first published by Indian Catholic Matters on April 19, 2026. We are republishing it here as we mark the first anniversary of Pope Francis’ death. It has been a year since the death of Pope Francis, a...
The following article was first published on March 24, 2026 by Radio Veritas Asia. In 2017, I took my octogenarian father to the Divine Mercy Sanctuary in Kraków, Poland. He had long been devoted to the Divine Mercy devotion, and...
We are past the halfway mark of Lent. The ashes from Ash Wednesday have long faded, yet their memory lingers — a quiet reminder of the promises we made to pray more faithfully, fast more intentionally, and love more deeply....
(This interview has been edited for length and clarity. It was originally published by Indian Catholic Matters on February 25, 2026.) In a world increasingly shaped by religious diversity and global interconnection, few church leaders embody the lived experience of...
Note: This reflection on single life was previously published by the Union of Catholic Asian News on March 25, 2025. If you are Catholic, you might recognize that the three Church designated vocational callings are religious life, marriage, and singlehood....
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