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Faith That Sees The Unseen Suffering – OpEd

Faith That Sees The Unseen Suffering – OpEd

Key Takeaways: (UCA News) — Pope Leo XIV has repeatedly warned against a faith that is busy with activities but

23.10.2026 4

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Dr. Fr. John Singarayar

One In Christ, United In Mission: A Wary Reader Finds A Quiet Correction – OpEd

One In Christ, United In Mission: A Wary Reader Finds A Quiet Correction – OpEd

Key Takeaways: (Dr. Fr.) — I approached Pope Leo XIV’s message for the 100th World Mission Day with some wariness.

19.10.2026 4

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What This Mission Sunday Should Ask Of The Church In Asia – OpEd

What This Mission Sunday Should Ask Of The Church In Asia – OpEd

Key Takeaways: (UCA News) — On Oct. 18, 2026, the universal Church will mark its 100th World Mission Sunday under

16.10.2026 10

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The Broadcast Blessed – OpEd

Key Takeaways: (UCA News) — On Sept. 24 in St. Louis, a man who once shared a network time slot

12.10.2026 7

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Law That Listens: A New Canonical Moment – OpEd

Key Takeaways: (UCA News) — The Vatican’s newly published final report from the Synod’s canon law commission reads less like

12.10.2026 8

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A Song Should Never Need A Prison Sentence – OpEd

(UCA News) — India can honor a national song without asking every citizen to surrender conscience in order to prove

10.10.2026 6

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We Are Kin, Not Owners, Of Creation – OpEd

Francis of Assisi did not write theology in the academic sense. He sang it. In the Canticle of the Creatures, composed

05.10.2026 10

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A Face, Not A Figure – OpEd

(UCA News) — More than 800,000 people gathered along Paris’s Champs-Élysées and around the Place de la Concorde for Pope

03.10.2026 10

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The Empty Chair: Why Asia’s Youth Still Show Up – OpEd

Key Takeaways: (UCA News) –It started, more or less, with an insult. In May 2026, India’s chief justice made an

03.10.2026 30

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Vatican II Still Calls – OpEd

Key Takeaways: The Second Vatican Council did not set out to produce a perfect Church. It sought to help the

18.09.2026 20

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A Fake Photo Once Moved Markets – OpEd

Key Takeaways: (UCA News) — “What are you asking for proof? That is what comes up on Instagram Reels, isn’t

16.09.2026 20

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Beyond Panic: How The Church Should Meet Karnataka’s Young With Care, Not Fear – OpEd

Key Takeaways: On July 29, 2026, the Karnataka State AIDS Prevention Society issued a clarification that should have calmed a

28.08.2026 30

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The Delusion Of Divine Insurance – OpEd

We have turned faith into a transaction we never signed. Somewhere between Scripture and self-help, we convinced ourselves that God

18.08.2026 30

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Sister Agnes Also Celebrated Independence Day – OpEd

Key Takeaways My friend’s grandmother went to a convent school in a small town in Kerala that no longer exists

15.08.2026 30

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When Digital Lies Trap The Vulnerable – OpEd

Key Takeaways: (UCA News) — Human trafficking has not faded in the digital age; it has learned to disguise itself.

07.08.2026 30

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The Priests Who Carry Us – OpEd

We see them at the altar every Sunday, vested and ready, leading us through the familiar rhythms of Mass. We

05.08.2026 30

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Give Power Back To Local People – OpEd

Key Takeaways: (UCA News) — I remember a monsoon that used to feel familiar — the steady rhythm of rain,

28.07.2026 30

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Anthropological Reading Of Magnifica Humanitas – OpEd

Key Takeaways: Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, intervenes in contemporary debates about artificial intelligence by reframing them as...

28.07.2026 30

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The Dead Deserve Peace, Not Permission – OpEd

Key Takeaways: (UCA News) — There is a strange cruelty embedded in stories drifting out of Odisha lately: Christian families

24.07.2026 30

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When Silence Becomes A Moral Failure – OpEd

Key Takeaways: While governments debate regulation and technology companies race toward the next breakthrough, Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical Magnifica...

23.07.2026 40

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They Just Make The Air Harder To Breathe – OpEd

Key Takeaways: (UCA News) — Nobody asks the seminarian what he thinks about anti-conversion legislation. He is too busy with

23.07.2026 40

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The Miracle We Keep Missing – OpEd

We scan the horizon for dramatic signs while God works quietly in our kitchen sinks and morning commutes. This disconnect

21.07.2026 30

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Mary Magdalene Mistook Him For A Gardener – OpEd

Mary Magdalene has survived centuries of people trying to explain her, and she still shows up in the Gospels remarkably

21.07.2026 30

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Saint Thomas’ Witness Still Matters For India – OpEd

Key Takeaways (UCA News) — Legend has it that a skeptical apostle stepped off a boat on the Malabar coast

15.07.2026 40

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Panagal Rewrote The Rules Of Inclusion – OpEd

Key Takeaways History usually remembers the loudest names, but some of the most important work is done quietly, through policy,

15.07.2026 40

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Silence Is Not How The Church Complies – OpEd

Key Takeaways (UCA News) — Something shifted on June 22 — quietly, without fanfare, buried in the language of government

09.07.2026 40

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Knowledge Without Borders Belongs To Everyone – OpEd

Key Takeaways While governments debate regulation and corporations race toward the next breakthrough, Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical Magnifica Humanitas...

08.07.2026 30

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Our Children Are Drowning And We Are Debating Swimwear – OpEd

Key Takeaways I will begin with a confession that will make everything that follows make more sense. I almost did

08.07.2026 30

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At The Mercy Of The Machine We Built – OpEd

(UCA News) — Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical Magnifica Humanitas is not, at its core, about technology. It is about an older and

30.06.2026 40

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Peter And Paul Won’t Leave Us Alone – OpEd

(UCA News) — They did not particularly get along. That is worth saying plainly before we start polishing them into

29.06.2026 40

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Foreign Funds, Familiar Virtues – OpEd

For most Indians, 22 June 2026 was an ordinary Monday. In the offices of the Ministry of Home Affairs, however,

27.06.2026 40

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Babel Or Jerusalem, The Church Must Choose – OpEd

(UCA News) — There is a moment on a crowded train platform when two worlds briefly touch. A man steps

25.06.2026 40

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Nobody Told You About The Tailwind – OpEd

(UCA News) — There is a version of this conversation that never happens. The one where someone with every advantage

22.06.2026 40

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A Month That Speaks To The Heart – OpEd

May arrives quietly, yet it carries a deep spiritual invitation. It is a time when the Church places before us

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A Passive Voice Is How We Hide From The Wars We Choose – OpEd

By the time you read this, Pope Leo XIV has probably said it again. Not because he is running out

28.04.2026 50

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The Boy In The Basement – OpEd

Picture a small boy with his knees pulled to his chest, sitting in a basement somewhere he did not choose

21.04.2026 40

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The Poor Did Not Start This Fire – OpEd

(UCA News) — Stand at the edge of a paddy field in Odisha in March, and you will understand what

18.04.2026 40

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India’s Poor Deserve Better Than This – OpEd

(UCA News) — There is something quietly damning about the priorities a government reveals when it thinks the cost will

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Even Belief Now Needs Prior Notice In India – OpEd

(UCA News) — Good Friday is, at its core, a story about state power deciding it has the right to

07.04.2026 50

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Tomb Is Empty And That Is Not Nothing – OpEd

My grandfather kept a small wooden cross above his bed his entire adult life. When he died, we found a

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Nobody Asked Him To Leave – OpEd

I once lay inside a coffin and listened to my friends describe my life as if I had already left

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Faith Can Unite Us To Heal Creation – OpEd

(UCA News) — In an age when divisions run deep and technology advances faster than our wisdom, the need for

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Sacred Months Deserve More Than This – OpEd

(UCA News) — There is something quietly devastating about bad news arriving at the wrong moment. Not just the news

30.03.2026 50

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Nobody Told Us This Would Happen – OpEd

I want to tell you something that took me an embarrassingly long time to admit, even to myself. There have

30.03.2026 40

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It Grew Where We Couldn’t Reach – OpEd

I grew up thinking God lived at the top of a palmyra tree. Not literally — I knew better, even

27.03.2026 40

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Some Blood Has Always Been Unwelcome Here – OpEd

(UCA News) — There is a particular kind of cruelty that arrives dressed as caution. It does not announce itself.

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This Scholarship Is Rewriting Tamil Nadu’s Future – OpEd

I keep coming back to a single number: six. That is how many students from Tamil Nadu’s most marginalised communities managed

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The Church Must Guard Its Children Online – OpEd

(UCA News) — There is a moment many parish priests and youth ministers know well. A teenager sits in the

24.03.2026 40

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Five Small Parishes Model The Future Of The Church – OpEd

I recently spent time in five small parishes. What stayed with me was not the scenery but the way the

23.03.2026 50

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Faith Dies When We Stop Walking Toward Each Other – OpEd

There is something quietly revolutionary about the story of Mary visiting Elizabeth. Not revolutionary in the way we typically imagine

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