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The Dead Deserve Peace, Not Permission – OpEd

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

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Dr. Fr. John Singarayar

When Silence Becomes A Moral Failure – OpEd

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 2

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Dr. Fr. John Singarayar

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 2

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The Miracle We Keep Missing – OpEd

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 3

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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 5

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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 5

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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 6

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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 6

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Dr. Fr. John Singarayar

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 4

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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 4

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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 9

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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 8

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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 6

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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 10

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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 10

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Dr. Fr. John Singarayar

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

01.05.2026 10

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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 20

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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 10

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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 10

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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

13.04.2026 20

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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 20

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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

02.04.2026 20

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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

01.04.2026 20

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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

31.03.2026 20

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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 20

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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 20

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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 20

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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.

27.03.2026 20

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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

25.03.2026 30

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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 20

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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 20

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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

23.03.2026 20

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Every Child Deserves A Peaceful Childhood – OpEd

(UCA News) — There is a sound that belongs to childhood. You never think to notice it until it has

21.03.2026 20

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The Carpenter’s Challenge – OpEd

Joseph of Nazareth worked with his hands, raised a family through impossible circumstances, and made life-or-death decisions guided by the

17.03.2026 20

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Joseph Teaches Us Courage Through Silence – OpEd

We are drowning in visibility. Every platform screams at us to build our brand, grow our following, optimize our presence.

17.03.2026 30

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Joseph Guides Asian Families Through Technology – OpEd

The silent carpenter from Nazareth seems distant from the neon-lit megacities of contemporary Asia. Saint Joseph worked wood with calloused

11.03.2026 30

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Rights Into Reality – OpEd

Women’s and girls’ rights remain incomplete without something fundamental: equal access. When we open doors to education, economic resources,...

09.03.2026 20

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Joseph Shows Faith Resists Digital Control – OpEd

The carpenter from Nazareth seems an odd patron for the digital age. Saint Joseph wielded a hammer and saw, not

24.02.2026 30

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When Love Becomes Way Of Life: How Religious Community Quietly Transforms Lives In Rural India – OpEd

There is an old African proverb that says, “If you want to go fast, go alone. But if you want

23.02.2026 20

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India’s Missing Women Demand A Catholic Church Response – OpEd

(UCA News) — When more than 1.3 million women vanish over three years without sparking sustained national outrage, something fundamental

20.02.2026 20

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Lent Calls Us To Love Differently – OpEd

There is something quietly unsettling about the way many of us observe Lent. We follow the calendar, choose our sacrifice,

18.02.2026 20

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Fasting From What’s Eating Our Consecration – OpEd

I am stuck on why we have made fasting so narrow. We talk about giving up food for a few

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Campus Deaths Reveal Church’s Unfinished Work In India – OpEd

(UCA News) — When India’s University Grants Commission (UGC) announced its equity regulations for higher education early this year, the

13.02.2026 30

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India’s Parliament Has Forgotten How To Think – OpEd

The Indian Parliament met this February with all the usual ceremony—the grand halls, the formal procedures, and the weight of

07.02.2026 20

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Dr. Fr. John Singarayar

Viral Justice Killed An Innocent Indian Man – OpEd

(UCA News) — On a crowded bus last month in the Indian state of Kerala, a woman pulled out her

06.02.2026 30

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They Died Serving The Marginalized, Will We? – OpEd

(UCA News) — In 1693, a Portuguese Jesuit named John de Britto was beheaded in southern India. The Tamils called

04.02.2026 20

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Governors Are Betraying India’s Federal Promise – OpEd

Something fundamental is breaking in the way India governs itself. Across multiple states in recent weeks, governors have walked out

02.02.2026 30

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When Faith Becomes A Political Shield In India – OpEd

(UCA News) — With 2026 having just begun, India faces a moment of reckoning. Citizens are demanding answers to urgent

31.01.2026 30

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Saint Arnold Would Tweet The Gospel Today – OpEd

(UCA News) — In the shadow of Bismarck’s Kulturkampf, when anti-Catholic laws drove priests underground across nineteenth-century Germany, one man

30.01.2026 30

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Silence Has Become Its Own Answer – OpEd

The word “shameless” has been thrown around so often in Indian political discourse that it risks losing its bite. But

25.01.2026 30

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