Vatican probes sex allegations against Indian bishop
Bishop William claims baseless allegations come from priests upset by his efforts to reform the local Church UCA News reporter Updated: March 01, 2021 09:37 AM GMT
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Bishop K.A. William of Mysore denies any wrongdoing. (Photo: YouTube)
The Vatican is to investigate allegations against an Indian bishop two years after some priests and laypeople accused of him fathering two children and embezzling church funds.
A team of church people has been appointed to probe the claims against Bishop K.A. William of Mysore (now Mysuru) Diocese in southern India s Karnataka state, said a church official who asked not to be named.
Master strategist Modi woos Indian Christians by meeting cardinals
With elections due in key states including Kerala, the PM and his BJP party are playing a clever game
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi attends the launch of a Covid-19 vaccination drive via video conferencing in New Delhi on Jan. 16. (Photo: Indian Press Information Bureau/AFP)
New Delhi witnessed vintage politics when Prime Minister Narendra Modi met three Indian cardinals this week, but it went off more as a photo opportunity without any debated content.
For Modi and his pro-Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Jan. 19 meeting was a sure piece of material to woo Christians in some key states where elections are due this summer.
Kerala 2021: The Electoral Significance Of PM Modiâs Meeting With Catholic Bishops Â
by M R Subramani - Jan 20, 2021 10:16 AM
Prime Minister meets Catholic bishops. (@narendramodi)
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Prime Minister Modiâs meeting with Catholic bishops from Kerala is viewed as BJPâs efforts to seek support from the Christian community ahead of the assembly elections.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday (19 January) met three Catholic bishops as part of what could be construed as the Bharatiya Janata Party s (BJPâs) efforts to reach out to the Christian community ahead of the assembly elections in Kerala.
Modi met Cardinal Oswald Gracias of the Latin-rite Church, Mumbai, Cardinal George Alencherry, Major Archbishop of the Syro-Malabar Church, and Cardinal Baselios Cleemis, Major Archbishop of the Syro-Malankara Church â both Kerala â in his office.
Eastern Orthodox Christians and Roman Catholics in India are watching with concern a Supreme Court case about confession. Last week, the Supreme Court of India agreed to consider a petition by three lay members of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, who argue that the requirement of mandatory annual confession in their denomination violates the Constitutionally protected right to privacy.
The lawsuit follows two criminal cases, which started in 2018, where priests of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church in Kerala were accused of abusing confession to solicit female penitents into sexual relationships, and blackmail their husbands by threatening to reveal their wives’ secrets. The criminal cases are pending, with some of the priests in jail, but a parallel canonical investigation of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church concluded that the priests were guilty, and they were defrocked.
Cardinal Bo speaks the unspeakable
Asia s most fascinating senior cleric sends a message to Beijing with his unprecedented attack on the regime
Cardinal Charles Bo’s concerns echo not just those of his fellow Asians but also those of people across the globe at a time when the stark overreliance of most countries on China has become apparent. (Photo: Tiziana Fabi/AFP)
In launching his unprecedented attack on China over its culpability for Covid-19, Myanmar’s Cardinal Charles Maung Bo appears to be on a collision course with both the Vatican’s Secretariat of State and Myanmar’s government and military.